There's a manager at my work that says we should have a quarterly plan for targets and a seperate quarterly plan for activities. So we have meetings

where we talk about the things we will do over a quarter, but not what result we expect to get.

Wtf... shouldn't the plan lead to the outcome? If you do all the things on a list but it doesn't actually get you to the result you needed, isn't that just planning to fail? lol