What Dies First: The Five-Year Plan, the Org Chart, the Quarterly Review
Run a test this week. Find your five-year plan, open it to the section on AI, and ask whether the version written twelve months ago would tell you anything useful about where you are today. For most of us the answer is no — and that’s the whole problem with static planning. The artifact didn’t fail because it was badly made. It failed because the thing it predicts moves faster than the cadence on which you refresh it.