Map or landscape?

Have you ever thought about why we say: "we are behind schedule" or "we are not at the plan"?

The reality may no longer be as we planned it, but it's not reality that does not fit into the plans. It's always plans that do not fit with reality. We do not change the landscape to fit the map - it's the other way around. Therefore, we should get used to saying something like "schedule is ahead of reality" or "the paln is not where we are"!

How strange it may sound, it makes us all more humbled to reality. We have to respect that reality does not change just because we make plans. Henry Mintzberg has said it very well: "Reality has a tendency to constantly get in the way of the plan!"

 
Have a nice weekend