Why Human Minds Cannot Carry Out Strategy

Strategy is meant to chart a course through uncertainty, but even the best-constructed map fails if the human mind cannot sustain its coherence. Drift is not just structural, it’s also cognitive. 

Cognitive limits are not occasional weaknesses but biological constraints. Human beings were not designed to manage multiple horizons, layered dependencies, and collective incentives at once. The three major forces, immediacy, bounded attention, and causal blindness, set hard boundaries on what strategy can endure. Left uncountered, they reduce vision to immediacy, coordination to fracture, and progress to motion without a destination.