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Planning to Build Versus Building the Plan

by Jim Brosseau

Apparently, former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." Like many popular quotes, it is not clear whether he actually said this, but it is interesting to run into a situation where the expressed wisdom holds true.

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Planning to Build Versus Building the Plan8 August 2007

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