Plan To Fail Adage: Strategies In The Military

When I was in the military, I was taught an adage from Winston Churchill who reportedly said during World War II, “If you fail to plan, you can plan to fail”. This adage can be directly applied to our assignment question. An organization can make plans to complete tasks or projects in order to meet monetary goals. This sort of planning can be called a strategy (Lester & Parnell, 2006). These strategies can come from all aspects of the business in the form of staff hiring and retention, production, marketing, sales, and accounts receivable. If organization leaders do not formulate strategies for any period of time, it could create the potential for confusion, failure to meet critical goals, and force the company into