It is fairly inevitable that in an agile canvas strategic planning process, which is uniquely empowering and engaging, there are people accustomed to hierarchical approaches who bristle at the lack of hierarchy in the process.
It takes them out of their comfort zone. They are used to there being top-down mission and vision statements, values lists, top-down governance, managerial assignments, executive mandates. They are not used to people being entrusted, empowered and engaged in doing what matters inspired by shared dreams.
They actually have to go through the process and see it happen to have any faith in it. Hierarchy is intrinsically a mistrust of people. And this mistrust is not necessarily ill intentioned. It simply comes from having no idea how to do otherwise. People who are committed to hierarchical structures are not bad people. They have gifts to be engaged as well as others do. They wil