Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.
Interpretation
Planning is essential for achieving your goals and is a responsibility that requires commitment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of planning in reaching your desired destinations in life. It suggests that effective planning is not just a method or technique, but a profound responsibility that individuals must embrace to steer their lives towards their goals.
In practice
During a business meeting to encourage your team to create actionable plans for projects.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth
A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.
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