HOW SAUSAGES ARE MADE

There's the plan, in all its well-thought-out, nice tidy glory. With its timelines and page numbers and logic and clarity. Then there's how stuff actually ends up getting done. There's usually a big difference between those two things. You know those people you work with who somehow always stay calm when the plan starts to fall apart? The ones who keep their head when it's all going off the rails? Those are the people who understand that difference between the plan and the path and are comfortable in the gap.