Leadership Quote by Gene Kim

“Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.” When”

— Brian Tracy

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

— Robert Grudin

Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge…

— Daniel Levitin

“High-performing companies view planning altogether differently. They want their forecasts to drive the work they actually do. To make this possible, they have to…

— Michael C. Mankins

“Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines”

— Steve McConnell

“If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing.…

— Jocko Willink

“Planning does not slow the process, it ensures the process can be executed in the first place.”

— Cynthia McCourt

“The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that…

— Tom Peters

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

— Daniel Kahneman

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by…

— Fred Brooks

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

— Otto von Bismarck