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Planning
An annotated collection of 2 books on planning, spanning 1987 to 1994. Featuring works by Michael E. Bratman, Henry Mintzberg — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason
Michael E. Bratman, 1987 · Harvard University Press (reissued by CSLI, 1999)
Bratman's philosophical treatise on the nature of intention — what it means to intend something, how intentions relate to plans, and how rational agents navigate the gap between what they decide to do and what they actua…
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
Henry Mintzberg, 1994 · The Free Press / Simon & Schuster
Mintzberg's argument is that strategic planning as practised by most organisations is not strategy at all — it is a formalised ritual that produces plans but not strategic thinking, and that the two are different activit…