Can you think of reasons why an intended strategy might not be realised? Why do strategies sometimes emerge?

Illustrate your answers with examples from your own experience. If you do not have organisational examples, reflect upon your personal development so far.

What factors have influenced your choice of university? degree subject? career?, etc.

Have you followed your original plans? What changes have you made? Have new strategies emerged? Using Mintzberg’s model, you could plot your development so far on a time-line, identifying where and why planned strategies have failed to be realised and new ones have emerged.