{"id":3213,"date":"2019-06-25T06:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T10:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aleta.life\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:09:48","slug":"shorts-planning-is-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aleta.life\/index.php\/2019\/06\/25\/shorts-planning-is-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorts: Planning is Useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret. I&#8217;ve spent many years in strategic planning and I subscribe to Dwight Eisenhower&#8217;s view of it. D-Day&#8217;s architect once said, &#8220;In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.\u201d Empirically ol&#8217; Ike was completely correct. Every time I&#8217;ve made a plan for business or personal reasons it&#8217;s broadly panned out.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example. A few weeks ago I downloaded the North Atlantic pilot charts. I marked up June&#8217;s pilot chart with an optimistic course. This video shows what actually happened.<\/p>\n<p>By design, pilot charts give you a general understanding of monthly ocean weather patterns by area. They are a marvel of concise and attractive data presentation. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Tufte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edward Tufte<\/a> would be proud. <em><strong>Note<\/strong><\/em>: I am readily available to <a href=\"https:\/\/spearfishinnovation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consult on your strategic plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e5juRHtrm6E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret. I&#8217;ve spent many years in strategic planning and I subscribe to Dwight Eisenhower&#8217;s view of it. D-Day&#8217;s architect once said, &#8220;In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.\u201d Empirically &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8,26,219,341,15,359,342,145,16,289,360,358,87],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-underway","tag-aleta","tag-aleta-life","tag-atlantic","tag-azores","tag-carol","tag-consulting","tag-keeley","tag-marlon","tag-mike","tag-pirates-of-the-caribbean","tag-spearfish-innovation","tag-strategy","tag-tai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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