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The Pitfalls of Strategic Planning
Mintzberg, Henry
36/1  (Fall 1993): 32-47 *

Strategic planning is based on a number of mistaken assumptions. One of these assumptions is that the external environment can be made predictable. But, in point of fact, the external environment is always unpredictable: turbulence is a constant. Accordingly, the popularity of planning rests in part on the illusion of control.

 

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