Strategic Planning Kills Creativity; Strategic Thinking Enables It

I am actually happy that my board is going to take about 100 years to complete their strategic plan.

Is that bad?

I'm not saying they shouldn't do it. We've been in operation since 1930 and I believe there's never been a strategic plan, ever. So it's probably a good thing they are going through the process.

But for me, being totally selfish here, I can't wait for it to continue to take forever. Because as long as it does, I can "just do it", which is how I do what I do. Luckily I'm fairly smart, always keep our mission in mind, and have a great team on my side, too, so it's not like I'm running around in concentric circles (or figures of eight, or any other weird circular patterns, or any other non-circular patterns, for that matter...) doing stupid things, without oversight. But I fear that the minute a strategic plan is in place, that will be the death of my being able to think and act strategically.