The military saying, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” is true. People always make plans, like teachers plan their Teaching Plans, students write outlines to plan their essay, and business managers make plans to improve outstanding achievement. A plan, on the other hand, helps a manager organize resources and activities efficiently and effectively to achieve goals. Making plans is generally beneficial for those individuals and business managers; however, there is always two sides, planning also has disadvantages. In this essay, I will discuss benefits of planning for individuals and business managers, although planning also has some disadvantages, planning is still good for people.
Generally, there are many advantages of planning for individuals. Firstly, it gives an organization. Without plans and goals, organizations only react to daily occurrences. For instance, the solution that plays role in short run can’t play role in long run. Secondly, planning provides guidelines for decision-making. If planners don’t have any plans for the future, they will have few guidelines to make good decisions. For example, if a person wants to have a good holiday outside, he or she needs to plan his or her journey before the day they will go. Thirdly, planning can points out need for future change. Planning helps the planner to imagine future possibilities and to evaluate key fields for possible change. I often make plan before, if I have appointment with my friends, I can have enough time to think about any change will happen, like weather, time, meeting place; therefore, I can early have solutions to deal with those problems. The last advantage of planning for individuals is that it can encourage achievement. When you have plans, and do it step by step, you will feel it is simple to achieve. These four advantages of planning: gives an organization, provides guidelines for decision making, points out need for