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.
We can argue about major championships and whether Tiger will ever surpass Jack's 18 majors, but what can't be argued is this: Tiger Woods is the most dominant, most skilled player we've ever seen.
One does not succeed by sticking to convention.
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
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