Annual Planning Trap
The outdated practice of locking strategic assumptions into yearly documents, creating an immediate freshness problem.
Why it matters
By the time an annual plan is socialised across the organisation, the market conditions that informed it have already shifted. The trap is not planning itself — it is treating the output of planning as static truth rather than a hypothesis to be continuously validated.
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