There are some important lessons to be learned in strategic planning and leadership from the socio-political promulgations of our forefathers. First , diversity is a condition in any human assemblage. It expresses itself as faction, and faction must be allowed to exist for an organization to be sustainable. Someone once said that ideology is rationalization in brute self-interest. Second , running a business as a democracy is as irrational as any member of the mob it creates.
Strategy is about the future.
It is first about the sustainability of the organization, and then the development of the individual. Planning sessions run as democracies get stuck in the weeds, torn between organizational and individual issues. Above The Trees, and out of the weeds. That begins with the Executive. But the Representatives in this form of corporate governance had better be good listeners, lest they lose the support of their constituents.