How West St. Paul stopped writing strategic plans and started building a system that actually runs one. Most strategic plans don't fail because they're poorly written. They fail because the operational side of a city runs on an entirely separate track, and nobody ever builds the bridge. The plan lives in a binder or a PDF, the real work lives in everyone's inboxes and department meetings, and by March of year one the document is already gathering dust while decisions get made

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