Every fall, leadership teams sit down to build next year's plan. The thinking is usually good. People disagree well. The whiteboard fills up. And by spring, a lot of those plans look like the plan from the year before. That isn't a thinking problem. It comes from how the plan got built. Most plans are built by addition: the team decides what it wants and writes it down, one reasonable item at a time. Five signs your plan was built by addition The same items show up two years