These people* think that you build a plan, or set a direction, by assembling many details together. Imagine just memorizing facts until you had enough facts in your brain that you could formulate a plan. It's ridiculous, but surprisingly difficult to criticize, because they have their facts to back them up!

The other way is this: use your intuition, and then go to the facts (details) to verify or disqualify the intuition. It's top-down rather than bottom-up. You don't get intuition by memorizing stuff. Beware the clean desk. I could go on and on ...

* I hate to categorize people, but there it is.