Peter Drucker Quotes About Planning
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Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.
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Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.
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It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.
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Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
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Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
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The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.
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