Quotes About Planning

I have seen that the failure to set manageable goals is as common a mistake as any other. People get confused because they don't have a step-by-step plan. They casually talk about goals and results, or objectives, but they don't really know how to distinguish between them.

winning is beyond our control, while preparation is 100 percent under our control.

That way you are protected with adequate information in case something unexpected comes up.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

A traditional project manager focuses on following the plan with minimal changes, whereas an agile leader focuses on adapting successfully to inevitable changes.

When project leaders focus on delivery, they add value to projects. When they focus on planning and control, they tend to add overhead.

Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model.

In my early years of iterative development, I thought timeboxes were actually about time. What I came to realize is that timeboxes are actually about forcing tough decisions.

Defend organizational change. Inevitable resistance can be mitigated if the change is carefully discussed, planned, embraced, communicated and ultimately defended.

business life. Believe it or not, they're more important to your future than the president of your company. This bit of knowledge has always seemed obvious, yet many new managers spend almost all their time planning their upward communication and give only a passing glance to the people who really control their future.

then speculating, and therefore having a plan, is the only way to deal with the uncertainty of the future in the markets. Given this definition, for the remainder of the book Speculator (capitalized) will be used to include investors, speculators, and traders, all of whom are Speculating.

The sequence of thinking before acting is the exact definition of the word plan. Therefore, speculating and planning are the same thing. A plan allows you to speculate with a long time horizon (as an investor), a short time horizon (as a trader), or on a spread relationship (as a basis trader or hedger).

Drucker's observation means that the controls should be consistent with the strategy, not that they should be selected after the strategy is implemented.

After you know where you want to get out of the market, then you can ascertain whether and where you are comfortable getting into the market. In contrast to what most people do, your entry point should be a function of the exit point.

A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

Unless you go before you go, you'll need to go while you're going.

I told him to plan as though Jesus is not returning for a hundred years and live as though Jesus is returning today.

COOK'S TIP: Bake every day. If you have to leave town fast, you'll always have something good to eat in the car.

Squeezing the most out of life takes a little executive planning. I used to say to the children when they were growing up, "If you have twelve things to do, and twelve hours to do them in, don't spend the first ten hours doing just one thing or you'll find yourself in an awful mess at the end of the day. Plan. And everything will get done.

She sat staring at the heavy curtains that shut out the gentle twilit garden, thinking how few things in life were un-muddled, firmly outlined as they were surely intended to be? One could organize, direct, plan each hour in advance and still the muddle persisted. Nothing in life was really water-tight, nothing secret, nothing secure.

Good strategies depend on the connection among many things, on making interdependent choices.

Strategy explains how an organization, faced with competition, will achieve superior performance.

Indeed, on a high plane of generality there is nothing very much for economic theory to say to the planner, except: Do not listen to those who say you want this rather than that — agriculture, not industry; exports, not home production; light industry, not heavy. You always want both. [p. 113]

La madurez consiste en saber posponer el placer inmediato para conseguir mejorar la situación a largo plazo.