This post is provoked by what has transpired in the last one month.
When you work on achieving certain goals the ideal way is to set up a plan to achieve the same, break it down into actionable tasks, get going. Monitor the progress and so on...
Usually I do start every key project like that. And then the dynamics of business takes over. In the most recent situaion, had accomplised what had to be done much in advance only to have people who committed back out of it. Thus it took me back to troubleshooting, reacting, huffing and puffing to finally reach the desired objective.(which is what i do of i do not go as per a systematic plan).
So the point is why do we still plan. As we always ending up re-writing the whole thing almost all the time.