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Tackling Excuses to Dismiss Long-Term Strategic Planning

Name: Tackling Excuses to Dismiss Long-Term Strategic Planning
Uploaded: 2024-12-11T05:30:02+00:00
Duration: 1 min 12 s
Channel: Francis Wade
Description: In this opening segment, the speaker asserts that long‑term strategic planning is crucial for the health of organizations, clubs, families, churches, and…

11 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this opening segment, the speaker asserts that long‑term strategic planning is crucial for the health of organizations, clubs, families, churches, and even the planet. He challenges the prevailing excuses that deter such planning—claims that it is too hard, too lengthy, too temporary, or unaffordable—and argues that these excuses are unfounded conventional wisdom. The speaker also targets nonprofits, warning against the mistaken belief that setting big goals alone is sufficient without a concrete strategic roadmap.

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And that idea that long-term strategic planning is essential to the well-being of all the way from organization to club to family, church, all the way to planet is vitally important is what one point of view that we're out to establish. We'll also establish that long-term strategic planning is— it's too important to indulge in the idea that it's too hard, too long, and it's too temporary to even bother with. Yeah, we'd love to do it, but we can't afford it, or we're so busy, or it takes too long, or some of the, the, the unproven excuses that get passed around as conventional wisdom, and we're out to surpass those and get past them. And if you're, again, if you're in a nonprofit, that we're out to get past that point of view that all you need to do is to set these big goals and then watch them happen. That it takes the