tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16201378.post4598736889116111513..comments2023-12-28T18:17:11.191-05:00Comments on Gruntled Center: Well-Planned: Summoned as Male: Female?Gruntledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14377809238377382438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16201378.post-31386869391278162852010-08-10T09:14:02.737-04:002010-08-10T09:14:02.737-04:00Not convinced this differs by gender.
In business...Not convinced this differs by gender.<br /><br />In business, you lose if you are simply reactive. But you also lose if you do strategic planning without adaptation. Business consultants now downplay strategic <em>planning</em> in favor of strategic <em>thinking</em>. The are so many unknowns and unanticipated shifts in context in our work that too much planning becomes counter-productive. But we must be continually asking strategic questions as we move through life.<br /><br />At a higher level, there is the "sense-making" questions we ask through life. As we experience more of life and pass through life-stages, our sense of life shifts. That shifts what we define as strategic. <br /><br />My point is that I think the healthy life, man or woman, is the endless dance of planning and being summoned. What I suspect may differ is the weight men and women give to various factors that feed into planning and being summoned.Michael Krusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07562574596754907146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16201378.post-51337216153828873202010-08-09T17:55:18.041-04:002010-08-09T17:55:18.041-04:00Once again, this resonates with me. Prior to now, ...Once again, this resonates with me. Prior to now, I've lived a very planned life where I've thought of goals and sought to obtain them.<br /><br />Lately, however, some major commitments I've made (i.e. marriage) have presented the possibility of preventing my obtaining them, for the sake of being able to go with the flow of the marriage.<br /><br />Most of the women I've spoken to seem to find themselves more in the second category, as well, so I think you're right on a gender distinction.Victoria Wheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09607772468731400742noreply@blogger.com