It's time to rethink planning.
Many of us have an ambivalent relationship to planning. It is often as unsatisfying as it seems necessary. The whole idea of "staying on plan" provokes eye rolls of doubt, knowing that change is life's constant.
Roadmapping is an alternative approach to creating and responding to our ever-shifting sense of the future. It's the practice of open-mindedness. It's being open to new questions, new opportunities and new ideas. It's based on the premise that there are multiple possible paths to any direction that calls us. It's making movement in the direction we seek in a dynamic rather than static way.
It's a realistic, responsive and resourceful approach to the future. It's the continuous process of roadmapping.
*Many thanks to old friend and entrepreneurial genius Doug Craver for the unique and powerful frame of “Roadmapping.”