Long-term Planning - How the Lord develops his kingdom

I spoke with a former managing director of the church (an employee of the church; there's 12 of them that have this title, which is the highest employee title at the church) a few weeks ago. He said that the church leaders at the highest level think of long-term planning in terms of decades, not years or quarters. When you know your organization is going to be around for a long, long time, it's worth planning this way.

This is interesting and coincides with the Lord's long-term planning. In 1 Nephi 13, it talks about the Lord using books to strengthen the case that the Bible is true, and that Jesus and the Apostles' thoughts and teachings are true. The process of making and bringing for these books took thousands of years in the case of the Book of Mormon and decades in the case of the Doctrine and Covenants. The Lord is the master long-term planner.

I contrast that with my startup company which has done very well. We can't plan in more than 12 month increments really because we don't know enough. The Lord's prophets have never been restricted to planning over such short-time frames.

I trust them.

Here's the verses about the other books and their purpose:

39 And after it had come forth unto them I beheld ^aother ^bbooks, which came forth by the power of the Lamb, from the Gentiles unto them, unto the ^cconvincing of the Gentiles and the remnant of the seed of my brethren, and also the Jews who were scattered upon all the face of the earth, that the records of the prophets and of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are ^dtrue.

40 And the angel spake unto me, saying: These ^alast records, which thou hast seen among the Gentiles, shall ^bestablish the truth of the ^cfirst, which are of the ^dtwelve apostles of the Lamb, and shall make known the plain and precious things which have been taken away from them; and shall make known to all kindreds, tongues, and people, that the Lamb of God is the Son of the Eternal Father, and the ^eSavior of the world; and that all men must come unto him, or they cannot be saved.

41 And they must come according to the words which shall be established by the mouth of the Lamb; and the words of the Lamb shall be made known in the records of thy seed, as well as in the^arecords of the twelve apostles of the Lamb; wherefore they both shall be established in ^bone; for there is ^cone God and one^dShepherd over all the earth.