Craig Groeschel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's my opinion.
To be clear, planning still matters.
You got to be organized.
You got to know where you're going.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
But I'm going to tell you right now, it doesn't matter as much as it used to.
And the reason is because today, things are changing so fast.
Technology's changing.
By the time you're through with this podcast, it's going to be different, right?
The economics swing overnight.
We're in a global economy.
A crisis could come out of nowhere.
Opportunities are appearing because things are changing.
And so it's not that long-term thinking is bad.
is just not as realistic as it used to be.
It's more impossible to think five years in the future because you can't accurately visualize five years in the future as well as you could a couple of decades ago.
And so,
When we started, we made these five-year plans.
And it took me about three rounds, like 15 years, to recognize they never worked.
And the funny thing is, they were never even close.