” No one follow the plan”
This line strikes me most when reading through the introductory materials in a strategic planning seminar organized by the International Academy for Leadership of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Working for the HQ of a party, I have the chance to handle the national strategic planning meetings headed by the party president when all sorts of visionary strategies, policies, plans etc were formed. On the other hand, we can see how things diluted down when visited the grass root members during our national tour.
Handling the daily operations of the party, we often feels the frustration of the tug-of-war between the vision & mission of the top leaders and the bread and butter demand of the grassroots. It is easy to fall into the psychological trap of ‘no one follow the plan’ and take the easy way out by applying short sighted tactics.
It is worse when people take things into their own hands as observed in our government, which is famous for manipulations (of the ‘little napoleons‘, as said by our Prime Minister) in the implementation of visionary plans.
I would opine that when planning strategically, the psycho-graphics of different levels of implementors be take into consideration to ensure the plan is carried out properly.
In The Minds of Young Malaysians 