Ted Talk
Time to Build Our Game Plan!
As summer winds down and kids head back to school, thoughts often turn to the start of a new football season. As a life - long fan of the Washington Football Team, I long for the glory days of Coach Gibbs before he became a legend in
NASCAR. He always had a game plan.
Successful teams start with good plans, and then they roll with it. As President Eisenhower once said, “ Plans are worthless, but planning is essential. ” What did he mean by such a paradoxical observation? The details of a plan designed in advance are often incorrect, but the planning process demands the thorough exploration of options and contingences. The knowledge gained during this work is crucial to the selection of appropriate actions as future events unfold.
Over the next couple of months, our Senior Leadership Team will be developing Orange County ’ s “ game plan ” for moving our organization forward. The graphic here illustrates the five focus areas for this effort. We will be integrating Strategic Planning into our work, considering the best Structural alignment, and will seek the most useful IT, HR, and Performance Measurement Systems to create accountability and alignment. Once the plan is drafted and shared with the Board of Supervisors, we will be looking to “ recruit ” players from across the team to execute on this playbook.
This is an exciting time for Orange County, and I look forward to coaching this team towards a winning season.
Ted Voorhees– Orange County Administrator
Cover photo by Michelle Williams
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