"Aristotle said that an unplanned life is not worth examining, because it is one in which we do not know what we are trying to do or why, and one in which we do not know where we are trying to get or how to get there. It is also not worth living because it cannot be lived well" (Adler, Mortimer J. Aristotle for Everybody. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978.)
Then consider what Peter F. Drucker has to say about planning in the Harvard Business Review article at (http://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself/ar/1):
"The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback analysis. Whenever you make a key decision or take a key action, write down what you expect will happen. Nine or 12 months later, compare the actual results with your expectations. … Feedback analysis is by no means new. It was invented sometime in the fourteenth century by an otherwise totally obscure German theologian and picked up quite independently, some 150 years later, by John Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola, each of whom incorporated it into the practice of his followers. In fact, the steadfast focus on performance and results that this habit produces explains why the institutions these two men founded, the Calvinist church and the Jesuit order, came to dominate Europe within 30 years."
I'm sure that John Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola learned this from Aristotle.
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