This past November a colleague and I went to USITT in Charlotte, North Carolina. He took the lighting track, and I did everything non-technical theatre as possible. Had a decent amount of education and planning in it. There was one workshop in particular that really piqued my interest as well as stimulated inner dialogue that was about incremental change: how do you plan and manage incremental change. Today as I sat at one of my jobs, that workshop hit me like a ton of bricks. Light bulbs were going off; literally. I have the PowerPoint hanging out on my computer and may upload it at a later date.
A problem that I now am able to see, are that people can see the big picture at the end of the rainbow - but they don't plan for the rainstorms, the floods, the excessive history breaking heat waves. No transition anywhere in any industry is going to go without a hitch so with that in mind, I plan most all of my changes with "worst case scenario" in mind. I, by no means recommend that method either. Where is that happy medium; what is the gray??
Thesis Tie in: a strategic plan is only as good as it's strategy. To create a strategy, I must understand what it is needed; who needs it and why they need it. What currently exists? What needs to be done to fix it?
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