Quotes About Planning

Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought.

Projects do not need to be listed in any particular order, whether by size or by priority. They just need to be on a master list

you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust.

Three things go on your calendar: • time-specific actions; • day-specific actions; and • day-specific information.

What you've probably discovered, at least at some level, is that a calendar, though important, can really effectively manage only a small portion of what you need to organize. And daily to-do lists and simplified priority coding have proven inadequate to deal with the volume and variable nature of the average professional's workload.

There is no denying the lesson these numbers teach us. The future is going to be expensive.

FOR LONG-TERM DREAMS (FOUR TO TEN YEARS) Once you get to dreams that are going to take you more than four years to save for, you should really consider putting your dream-basket money into growth-oriented investments. Because you've got more time, you can afford to take more risk to get a bigger return. To my mind, that means investing in stock-based mutual funds.

three baskets into which you should put your eggs. I call them the security basket, the retirement basket, and the dream basket.

Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And

Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.

Pine was normally a light packer, a one-suitcase sort of girl. But for this trip, she had brought a second small suitcase. She set it on her bed and opened it. She looked down at the oddball assortment of items carefully packed inside

She lightly punched him in the arm. "So, on to Williamsburg?" "On to Williamsburg. But I need to call them first.

The real way to win a football game comes before you step on the field.

Einheiten zu planen. Sein Leben war sehr strukturiert, bot

it was botched. A traffic police officer intervened and the whole plan fell apart. But that was from low-level external sources and had nothing to do with us. Our strike will be quick and clean. And it will succeed." "And you have your team in place?

El éxito o fracaso dependían en gran medida de la preparación. Con una buena preparación, lo único que se requería hacer era ejecutar. Incluso podían realizarse cambios en el ultimo momento si la planificación lo requería." ? David Baldacci , MÁXIMO IMPACTO (The Hit)

In many companies, operations and strategy exist on different planes. Planning presentations take place in July, while operational budgets are formulated six months later, at year's end.

At Honeywell, we asked business leaders to think not just about the next five years when they presented strategic plans, as they traditionally did, but also to craft the following fiscal year's plan.

Most companies have succession plans for their leadership ranks, but it devolves into a rote exercise, and the organization lacks a clear sense of who will fill key roles in case of departure. It's another instance of what I call "compliance with words rather than compliance with intent.

I often quoted a popular Chinese proverb when addressing our leaders: "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Bob Rubin's book In an Uncertain World. Rubin had argued that many outcomes are possible in a given situation, and you have to anticipate and prepare for eventualities that seem unlikely but that could prove extremely damaging should they materialize

While reading a book about the construction of the Panama Canal, I came across an anecdote about the project's chief engineer, whose math teacher used to say, "If you have five minutes to solve a problem, use the first three to figure out how you're going to do it.

Not only did I spend time in advance of meetings generating some key questions for teams

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.