The best laid plans

Seth Godin writes about The best laid plans.

As your plans get more detailed, it's also more and more likely that they won't work exactly as you described them.

Certainly, it's worth visualizing the thing you're working to build. When it works, what's it going to be like?

Even more important, though, is being able to describe what you're going to do when the plan doesn't work. Because it won't. Not the way you expect, certainly.

Emphasis Mine

This is especially true during revolutions. There are both unexpected obstacles and unexpected opportunities. But the important thing is to keep the objective in mind.

SYRIZA has been criticised for allying with a right-wing party after the Greek election. This alliance is necessary for the immediate objective of solving the Greek debt problem without destroying Greek society and economy. And this objective is part of the path SYRIZA sees as the way to Socialism.