Because coercive pressure that is brought to bear by external funding sources seems to be the primary reason why independent organizations work up strategic plans at all, it is less likely that their plans will actually be strategic. Instead, the plan “may be largely symbolic … and the planning process may be decoupled from other strategic activities,” such as improving performance.79 The nonprofit strategic plan, in other words, may not be a shaper of organizational dynamism (as it is meant to be), but rather a sitter on dusty office shelves (as it too often is, in all sectors).