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If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!
Sep 17, 2025
Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Always begin with the end in mind.
Begin with the end in mind.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do