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.
The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.
Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
Growing up, people will tell you that you have a better chance to become an astronaut than becoming an NBA player. So when you finally get to the NBA, you've beat the odds. So when you put on that jersey, everything else is downhill.
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