Planning - is not easy, nor is it understood.
Good planning is taken for granted. When a job or event runs smoothly, most participants will never feel the undercurrent of efforts that were present to make the 'magic' happen.
'Magic', however, does not just 'happen'. When a job or event does not run smoothly, hits snags, or, perhaps, fails outright, the Sunday morning quarterbacks take up their positions and throw projectiles at those who were at the forefront.
Unjustified projectiles? Perhaps. More often than not, the criticism is justified.....but only by those who were involved in the project..........not the side-sitters, as I call them.
Side-sitters move about in this world from the periphery of every project, committee, event, or job. They bring the special chairs from which they observe and comment on each decision. Side-sitters suffer from no shortage of opinions. Rather they suffer from a complete lack of initiative, original thinking, and possess zero abilities to summon sweat equity.
How can the side-sitters be ignored or forever muzzled?
By planning.
Planning is not just ideas accompanied by smoke and mirrors. Planning involves and requires forward thinking, forward planning, informed decisions and the anticipation of the consequences of those decisions. 'Devils Advocates', while frequently annoying, do play an important role in planning, for without the questioners anticipating effects and outcomes, train wrecks will and do happen, resulting in a chorus of side-sitter voices.
The Final Answer?
Think, anticipate, do your homework, plan then repeat steps one through four before moving to step five and beyond. The side-sitters won't have a chair to sit upon!
Ancora imparo
