Planning

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

I've found exactly the same in business. Good project management is not about the quality of the plan - it's far more about the process of planning (i.e. identifying desired outcomes, next actions, dependencies and bottlenecks).

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