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Strategic planning is both a logical, rational process, and a process that involves people.
It takes more than developing a plan for that plan to be implemented. In this article, we consider that the critical link between planning and doing is leadership. Generally, inadequate time is allocated to the exercise, but if it is completed, it results in a document that contains a mission statement, broad organizational goals, and other elements as is deemed appropriate. Then, the plan is usually hidden away somewhere, never to be seen again. Traditional methods yield traditional results.