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.
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
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