INTRODUCTION
Planning requires you to predict the future and no one can predict the future unless they have a DeLorean time machine built by Doc Brown sitting in their garage. That’s why Malcolm Forbes said:
Anyone who says a businessman deals in facts, not fiction, has never read five-year-old projections.
Malcolm Forbes
Five out of the six quotations in this section deal with different aspects of uncertainty in the planning process while the sixth offers advice on how to improve future planning effectiveness. Thus, Quotation/s:
- 64 suggests that the benefits of planning lie in the knowledge gained during the planning process rather than the actual plan itself, which often proves to be inaccurate in its forecasts and assumptions.
- 65 to ...
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