Strategic Plans

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Strategic plans, we have a few

But still we don’t know what to do.

Define success and set some goals

Perhaps some surveys or some polls.

Start committees, focus groups.

Step up engagement, rally troops!

List our values and our missions.

Anything but make decisions.

Call in McKinsey, summon Booz

They’re both the same. You get to choose.

They’ve been in here a lot before

To show us what our work is for.

We sought their counsel and advice

Of course, it came at quite a price.

We paid them well, we wrote big checks.

And in return, we got big decks.

So many charts and graphs and notes

A ton of data down our throats.

Yet once again it’s still unclear

The path to which we should adhere.

Push ahead, expand, acquire.

And then one day perhaps retire.

In the meantime, take the pay.

Enjoy the good old corporate way.

-Tony Mattera, Richmond, VA 2016