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To: MeDroogies who wrote (15523)	3/4/2001 9:27:01 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 19079

Droogs, most management consultants and researchers now talk about long range planning as basically being little more than "goal setting". Their point is that its become such a complex world, with so many variables that trying to plan and create strategies that go out 5 or 10 years is a form of corporate masturbation. If your interested, here's an article about what's called "complexity theory",that pretty much covers the issue. Its from CIO magazine... cio.com