Planners and strategists are wonderful people but we are all tempted by sin from time to time. Here are the seven greatest sins of the planner right now

1. The Seven Deadly Sins
Richard Huntington

3. The Seven Deadly Sins
Of Planning

4. Gluttony
Over indulgence to
the point of
extravagance or
waste

5. Don’t indulge in the planning
echo chamber

6. Build your own approach from
evidence and experience

7. Envy
When someone lacks another’s superior quality, achievement or possessions and
desires them

8. Resist your envy for people that
‘make things’

9. Making meaning is far more
powerful than simply making
things

10. Lust
The feeling of intense desire for sex,
power and expensive things

11. Making the work great sounds
sexy but its not your job

12. Your job is to make sure the
work solves the problem

13. Greed
An inordinate or insatiable
longing for wealth, status
and power

14. Don’t become a servant of your
client’s greed and wishful thinking

15. Your real client is your customer
not the people that pay you

16. Sloth
A habitual disinclination to
exertion

17. You are fucking good, perhaps
you needn’t work so hard

18. Anxiety maketh the planner

19. Wrath
Intense response to a
perceived provocation,
hurt or threat

20. You are rightly angry about
inclusivity and diversity

21. Improving the inclusivity and
diversity of our work is on you

22. Pride
Foolish or irrationally corrupt sense of
one’s personal value

23. You think that we have a god
given right to exist

24. Changing reality is the only fit
job for a planner