QUOTATION 64
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ON WHY PLANS ARE USELESS BUT PLANNING IS ESSENTIAL
Use this to remind you of the benefits of planning.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) was Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War and later served as a two-term President of the United States. As the man responsible for overseeing the invasion of Europe, he was intimately involved in the planning that went into D-Day. Despite all that, he famously said:
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is often said that truth is the first casualty of war; if that is the case, General Eisenhower is reminding us that the second casualty ...
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