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Leaders ‘steer the boat’ according to the plan and know how to leverage the best qualities of individuals in order to execute the well-thought-out-plan of which all parties take ownership.
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094 |
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Your plans need to be definite, they need to be both short term and long term, and the must be coupled with specific goals.
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101 |
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Many of us meet with failure because we quit before we find the plan that works.
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102 |
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…few plans of any kind survive their first encounter with the real world.
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063 |
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A plan is only useful if it can survive reality. And a future filled with unknowns is everyone’s reality.
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063 |
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The world isn’t that kind to anyone… You have to give yourself room for error. You have to plan on your plan not going according to plan.
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138 |
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You have to adapt your plans to the players you have so their unique talents can contribute to the team.
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057 |
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The authors of unrealistic plans are often driven by the desire to get the plan approved – whether by their superiors or by a client – supported by the knowledge that projects are rarely abandoned unfinished merely because of overruns in costs or completion times.
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250 |
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…responsibility for avoiding the planning fallacy lies with the decision makers who approve the plan.
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251 |
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Organizations face the challenge of controlling the tendency of executives competing for resources to present overly optimistic plans.
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252 |
