Predictions

Speculation

Tickets for Game 7 of the 2024 World Series are on sale. You can commit to an experience that has a low percentage of taking place with the Dodgers leading 3 games to zero already. How often do we speculate? What resources are we willing to commit to an event that is unlikely to take place? What does this tell us about our priorities?

No Perfect Brackets; No Perfect Plans

100 million NCAA March Madness collegiate basketball brackets are filled out yearly, and they cannot correctly select all the winners. How do we expect to predict our organization’s future if we do not have the benefit of professional analysis and endless metrics? Are we so confident in our ability to forecast the future that we can write strategic plans as if we are completing a winning NCAA March Madness bracket? We might get some themes right, but the odds are against perfection.

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