Quotes About Planning

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

Resources follow vision.

If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.

Leaders are intentionally lucky.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.