The Planning Puzzle

You are right. Planning is not like this:






Planning is probably a lot more like Gotye's song Puzzle With A Piece Missing:

Visuals for Gotye - Puzzle With A Piece Missing from Tim Webster on Vimeo.

Lyrics to Puzzle With a Piece Missing

"Tiny pieces come to me every day
Still I wait
Things are falling into place
But so much time goes to waste

I stretch and shift
These parts won't fit
I can chop and change all I like
Rearranging this won't make it right

All doors are open.
All the doors are open."


The imagery is less important here but, the lyrics come pretty close to expressing the monumental task of get any plan to work perfectly. The pieces of the puzzle don't just fall into place.

Planners often work hard for small bits which don't always make sense to the general public and which occasionally don't even seem to fit the overall vision. And the wait to see a plan start coming to fruition is usually very long.

Process:
The intention is to interpret your observation that things don't always go according to plan in a visual way. My goal is to keep giving you visual information until some sparks. Let me know if it's too much visually.