This focus on the larger picture, however, does have its perils. By openly identifying and emphasizing big, inspiring organizational goals, morale can suffer if the public organization fails to attain those goals –– typically because of budget reductions over which the public agency has no control. In the context of the public sector, strategic planning tends to overpromise (or at least raise expectations), and if promises are unkept, disappointment and malaise can seep through the organization. Thus, it could be, in the words of some observers, that “whatever the merits of strategic planning in the abstract, normal expectations have to be that most efforts to produce fundamental decisions and actions in government through strategic planning will not succeed.”78