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Quotes About Planning

Ad Hoc Strategic Meetings In some cases, a strategic or critical issue that gets raised in a Weekly Tactical meeting cannot wait for the next Monthly Strategic meeting on the schedule. Still, that doesn't mean it should be taken up during that Weekly Tactical.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Another challenge in making strategic meetings work is the failure to do research and preparation ahead of time. The quality of a strategic discussion, and the decision that results from it, are improved greatly by a little preliminary work. This eliminates the all-too-common reliance on anecdotal decision making. The key to ensuring that preparation occurs is to let team members know as far in advance as possible what issues will be discussed during the Monthly or Ad Hoc Strategic.
~ Patrick Lencioni
we have to ideate, activate, and implement.
~ Patrick Lencioni
To make our meetings more effective, we need to have multiple types of meetings, and clearly distinguish between the various purposes, formats, and timing of those meetings.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Whether we like it or not, meetings are the closest thing to an operating room, a playing field, or a stage that we have.
~ Patrick Lencioni
The key to managing this challenge, of course, is to identify a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization, and then spend most of your time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues.
~ Patrick Lencioni
See, management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.
~ Patrick Lencioni
management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.
~ Unknown
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn
~ Paul Clitheroe
Não sou daqueles que planejam acuradamente cada vírgula que escrevem e cada sopro de ar que exalam, de modo que a história, isto é, os idiotas de amanhã possam admirar sua perfeição.
~ Paul Karl Feyerabend
Every person has short-term goals. Some are modest, such as setting aside money for a vacation next month or paying for medical bills. Other short-term goals are more ambitious, such as accruing funds for a down payment to purchase a new home within six months. Whatever the expense or purchase, you need a predictable accumulation of cash soon. If this sounds like your situation, stay away from the stock market!
~ Unknown
Time is a factor in travel, one of the most crucial.
~ Paul Theroux
When are you getting married?' 'After graduation, stupid.
~ Paul Zindel
Inspiration is the most important part of our digital strategy.
~ Unknown
Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans
~ Paulo Coelho
The trouble shows up when they need to organize output—deciding what to do when and then controlling their own behavior to get there.
~ Unknown
We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.
~ Joseph A. Schumpeter
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
~ Robert Bresson
Chess is the art of analysis.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
~ Charles Saatchi
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
~ Sun Tzu
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
~ George Stillman Hillard
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.
~ Sun Tzu
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
~ Unknown