Planning is one of the many catchwords whose present popularity is roughly proportionate to the obscurity of its definition. - Chester Irving Barnard

At a crisis in my youth he taught me the wisdom of choice: To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

The executive is primarily concerned with decisions which facilitate or hinder other decisions.

The making of decisions, as everyone knows from personal experience, is a burdensome task. Offsetting the exhilaration that may result from correct and successful decision and the relief that follows the termination of a struggle to determine issues is the depression that comes from failure, or error of decision, and the frustration which ensues from uncertainty.