Dr. Rufat-Latre, an internationally known strategist, is a specialist in 'systems thinking,' a global method of thinking utilized in business and education that examines how all parts of a system interact. Dr. Rufat-Latre is a former student of Peter Senge, who is author of The Fifth Discipline . Additionally, he previously worked with NASA's Johnson Space Center. The budget is a pie and we better get as much of it as we can before somebody else does.
Productive planning creates a reason for the pie to be there in the first place.
The pie is a means to an end. Planning, in short, is the process by which a shared vision is created. A shared vision cannot be created by a small group of very intelligent persons behind closed doors. So, you want to create the future. . . Organizational learning 1.