Ehcks wrote:
Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic can not be stopped. The success or failure of any step will have no impact on the macro level.
Edit: To not plagiarize, this is from Eight-bit Theater. I don't remember the page.
To paraphrase Richard Russo's
Straight Man, "any plan not firmly rooted in chaos theory is bound to fail".