To Alonzo - I am amused that you said you would engage in dialog when you
had time and then blew ahead with your perspective on strategic planning.
First of all, as a student and novice to systems/strategic
planning/learning organizations, I found your comments instructional. I,
also have read Karl Weick who says that acting should precede planning
because it is only through action and implementation that we create the
environment. Until we put the environment in place, how can we formulate
our thoughts and plans. In Strategic planning we act as though we are
responding to a demand from the environment; but in fact, we create the
environment through our own strong intentions.
With regard to Dorothy Martin's comments about the gender of strategic
planning, Martha Rogers, a nursing theorist and more recently, Margaret
Wheatly in "Leadership and the New Sciences" refer to the concepts of
fields. Field theory suggests a force of unseen connections that
influences employees' behavior - rather than as a message about some
desired future state. This is why organizational vision is so necessary.
I'm inclined to believe this "intuition" is more female in nature.
Jacqueline V. Coppola, RN, PHN
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