Annual Planning

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name: Annual Planning
description: Run an annual planning cycle that produces focus, alignment, and OKRs.
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# Annual Planning

Annual planning fails when it becomes a budget exercise disconnected from
strategy, or a wish-list with no prioritization. Done well, it produces a small
set of priorities the whole company can rally behind. This skill structures the
cycle end to end.

## Start With Strategy, Not the Calendar

Before any goals, answer the strategic questions:

- Where are we now, honestly? (Reflect on last year: what worked, what did not,
  what surprised us.)
- What is the single most important thing we must achieve this year to win?
- What are we explicitly NOT doing? A plan with no "no" is not a plan.

The output of this stage is a point of view, not a spreadsheet.

## The Planning Cadence
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