Jack’s answer impressed him. “Strategic planning is critically important to a business,” Jack replied. “But the business leader has to own it, and what’s happened is they’ve just all delegated responsibility to a group of people who were in the strategic planning function, who work on making prettier and prettier charts to just impress all the other strategic planning bosses, and business leaders no longer own a strategic plan, and they’re not doing the strategic thinking the way they need to.” Cote said Jack’s answer made a lot of sense.
