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This reminds me of the Joker quote from The Dark Knight; The Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan?...I just... do things. The mob has plans, the cops
by knodi 15y ago
This reminds me of the Joker quote from The Dark Knight;
The Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan?...I just... do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans... they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.
This is how I feel about "strategy sessions", these "strategy sessions" are almost always held by businessmen wannabes and lead to nothing but bullshit and guesses presented as facts.
Just go out and do it then come back with your findings now you have facts that you can work with.
- sriramk 15y agoThat's nice. That's actually a better analogy than the one I used in my post :)
- cek 15y agoWhile I agree with Sriram's overall point in this post, I think your comment shows there is another point Sriram is making (but not explicitly): Have a plan, but know that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Planning/strategy sessions can be very, very useful in helping to form a plan early on. They expose ideas and roadblocks and hard questions. They are a MEANS to an end and that END is NOT a strategy. It's a set of hard problems, ideas to pursue, and a framework for making decisions (and sticking to them) that is the END. So don't take Sriram's advice too literally. He's not saying "Don't plan". He's not saying "Don't ever think about strategy". What he's saying is, like everything in life, do it with moderation.
- philwelch 15y ago"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything." --Eisenhower "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." --Patton
- sriramk 15y agoYou articulated this better than I did
- jianshen 15y agoVision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- libraryatnight 15y agoYes, and don't go off your rocker if things deviate.
- badclient 15y agoPlease cite billion dollar corporations that do not hold strategy sessions. While the lack of such corporations do not automatically show the usefulness of strategy sessions, they do put the onus on you to prove otherwise if you are taking the position that they are almost never of much use.
- cousin_it 15y agoThe Joker in Dark Knight executed some very careful and involved plans. For example, your quote is taken from his conversation with Dent, which was the final step of his plan to drive Dent crazy. Hell, remember the heist that the film starts with? Does it look unplanned?
- gfodor 15y agoI'd argue that you're talking about tactics not strategy here.
- silverbax88 15y agoI'd argue that people still think they are unrelated because they saw a politician say that once in a debate. Joker's tactics were used to execute on his overall strategy of robbing banks for a specific goal, getting close to specific people.
- sc68cal 15y agoThis is totally off topic, but the fact that The Joker eschews planning could also be part of the theme of him being an "unstoppable force" rather than just a man. He symbolizes man's darker nature and tendencies.
- sliverstorm 15y agoHaving a Plan and thinking more than 24 hours into the future don't neccesarily have to be the same thing. I took his use of "plan" in the grander sense. Why did he plot to drive Dent crazy? Who knows, he has no Plan, he just did it.