Planning Has Nothing to Do With the Plan Going "Right"

Planning Has Nothing to Do With the Plan Going "Right"

September 8, 2026 · 20 min · Episode 363

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Megan discusses the unpredictability of planning and how her summer did not go as expected despite her expertise in planning.

I teach planning for a living, and almost nothing I mapped out for this summer actually happened the way I planned it. Since the middle of June I have been on 22 airplanes. Three of those trips were booked with about 48 hours notice, and three separate times I had to disappear from work completely and hand this business over to my team. From the outside, that probably looks like a planning expert whose planning failed. And if you have ever watched your own plan go up in flames and thought "wh...

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