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February 18, 2026

Quarterly planning - it's crunch time

You can kiss your PTO goodbye.

Our hapless leadership team has been swirling on their decisions rather than knocking out their KPIs. They’ve been derailed by Dogboss’s pet projects (hint, hint, it starts with A and ends with I) but now they may finally have found a way out.

A six panel cartoon of the third attempt at Quarterly planning. The team is fighting until they realize that time is a construct.
If it’s in Harvard Business Review, it must be right.

More about Multi-Plane Planning coming soon, but at least we’ve got our Q3 roadmap, right!?!?

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