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Loyalty To The Plan Is Not The Same As Loyalty To The Goal

Plans are written to achieve goals. The plan and the goal occasionally diverge. Circumstances change. The goal moves. The plan does not always follow. 

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.

The execution is excellent. The destination is wrong.

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.

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.

The portable question from this episode: Are we committed to the goal — or to the plan we wrote to reach it?

Worth asking before the next milestone is celebrated. Worth sitting with after.

"The plan was executed perfectly. The goal had moved six months earlier."

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