Indispensable to sound strategy: trust and confidence in the planner Available to Purchase

The objective of this paper is to probe the extent of confidence and trust in oneself, in others, and in the future when devising plans and strategy.

The paper evokes specific incidents, past and present, marking the bases of confidence sustained, abandoned, or disregarded.

This paper presents examples of outcomes that may be overlaid on readers' current exercises in planning or scenario development.

This is an example of the continuing value of analyses in retrostrategy: understanding how/why a future‐oriented scheme is succeeding, failing, or having indifferent effect.