FIELD NOTE #057 | Loyalty To The Plan Is Not The Same As Loyalty To The Goal

<p>Loyalty To The Plan Is Not The Same As Loyalty To The Goal</p><p><br></p><p>Plans are written to achieve goals. The plan and the goal occasionally diverge. Circumstances change. The goal moves. The plan does not always follow. </p><p><br></p><p>Some teams continue executing the plan long after the goal it was designed to achieve has changed — hitting every milestone, delivering every output, reporting green across every metric.</p><p><br></p><p>The execution is excellent. The destination is wrong.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode examines the mechanism behind Plan Loyalty — the continuation of a plan after the goal it was designed to achieve has changed, moved, or quietly retired — and the gap between commitment to a plan and commitment to the goal the plan was designed to serve.</p><p><br></p><p>There is a name for the pattern. And there are two questions that reveal whether a team is committed to the goal — or to the plan it wrote to reach it.</p><p><br></p><p>The portable question from this episode: Are we committed to the goal — or to the plan we wrote to reach it?</p><p><br></p><p>Worth asking before the next milestone is celebrated. Worth sitting with after.</p><p><br></p><p>&quot;The plan was executed perfectly. The goal had moved six months earlier.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>---</p><p><br></p><p>Stay Tuned…</p><p><br></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Top Voice</p><p><br></p><p>Maido; Konnichiwa minna! 👶🏻🧑🏻‍🦱👩🏻‍🦳</p><p>Wie Gehts guys? Mir gehts gut!!! ✌️🤘🙌</p>