IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING

IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING
 IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING
1. Planning reduces uncertainty of future events.
2. Planning makes objectives clear and specific.
3. Planning brings economy in operations
4. Planning provides the basis of control
5. Planning establishes unity and co-ordination
6. Planning takes optimum utilization of available
resources
7. Planning helps to control hasty decisions
8. For development of organization
PRODUCTIVITY
 PRODUCTIVITY
- Is a measure of the efficiency of production

- Is a measure of how well resources are

utilized to produce output
PRODUCTIVITY
Productivity Tips From Top Business Leaders
 1. Set goals on a daily basis

“Know what significant goals you want to work

towards every day. I list a small number of high-
value tasks or goals for the day.” – Rachel
Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences
 2. Do the hardest thing first

“One productivity tip I’ve always loved is ‘eat the

frog’ — which means tackling the most
challenging, or least favorite task, first thing in
the day.” – John Furneaux, CEO of Hive
 3. Review your week every Friday

“Review your diary at the end of each week.

Literally, print it out and review it. It will
transform how you spend your time.” – Scott
Farquhar, Co-CEO at Atlassian
 4. Identify your most productive time of day

“Understand how your brain works and when

you are most productive. For me, I’ve gotten rid
of lunch meetings to keep my productive time
going as long as I can.” – Ryan Smith, CEO and
co-founder of Qualtrics
 5. Start with just 5 minutes

“If you don’t want to do something, make a deal

with yourself to do at least five minutes of it.
After five minutes, you’ll end up doing the whole
thing.” – Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder of
Instagram
Procrastination is the enemy of productivity, but
we’ve all been guilty of it at some point in time.
 6. Understand your priorities

“Saying ‘I don’t have time’ really means ‘it’s not a

priority.” If someone offered you a ton of cash to do
whatever you claim you don’t have time for…you’d
probably find the time! So it’s not about time. It’s that
it hasn’t risen up your priority list enough…and that is
FINE. Plenty of things may sound good in theory but
aren’t right for right now in practice. Embrace that
reality and you can take back control of your time.” –
Laura Vanderkam, Author and Productivity
Professional
 7. Set Boundaries

“In order to do the best job I can, I like to finish

one task at a time so it gets my full attention. If
you don’t set your schedule, boundaries and
expectations from the start, people are going to
take advantage of you. So it’s important to be
mindful of what your boundaries are and how to
message them to others.” – 
Karen Edgar, HBO Program Manager at
WarnerMedia 
 8. Isolate yourself from distractions

“Turn off everything—email, phone, stock

tickers, news, etc.—as often as possible and
focus on a single task without interruption.” –
Dianne McKeever, Co-Founder and Chief
Investment Officer at Ides Capital
 9. Don’t waste time on emails

• “I would rather give a short, quick, incomplete

answer than wait and do it better.” – Sheryl
Sandberg
• Email is an effective workplace
communication tool, but 
Sandberg’s email method suggests that long,
detailed responses are often a waste of time.
 10. Optimize your communication tools

“What’s instead imperative is to move more of

this work out of your inbox and into other
systems that better support efficient execution.
You can’t, in other words, avoid this work, but
you can find better alternatives to simply passing
messages back and forth in an ad hoc manner
throughout the day.” – Cal Newport, Writer,
Author, and Professor 
 11. Get some sleep

“When we take time to sleep, recharge we

are more effective as entrepreneurs, as leaders,”
Huffington says. “Our cognitive performance
improves. We make better decisions. We are less
reactive. We get less upset when bad things
happen.” –Ariana
Huffington, CEO and founder of Thrive Global,
former co-founder of The Huffington Post
 12. Plan for tomorrow

“The first thing I do before I go to bed is look

at the following day or maybe the next two or
three on my calendar. I check in with my
schedule and assess the hard landscape… being
external commitments that I have” – 
David Allen, Founder of GTD Method
 13. Create a routine

` “On Monday, I focus on management — we have

our directional meeting at Square and our opcom
[operations committee] meeting at Twitter. I do my
management one-on-ones that day. Tuesday is
focused on product. Wednesday is marketing and
communication and growth. Thursday is focused on
developers and partnerships and Friday is the
company and culture and recruiting. Saturday I take
off. I hike. Sunday is reflection, feedback, and
strategy.” – Jack Dorsey, CEO Twitter and Square
 14. Automate manual tasks

“One of our core values at Zapier is ‘Don’t be

a Robot, Build the Robot.’ No matter your role,
you’ll find yourself doing repetitive, low-value
work. Automating your manual tasks is one of
the best ways to increase your productivity,
outsize your impact, and stay focused on high-
value work.” – Wade Foster, CEO at Zapier
 15. Time-block your calendar

“Time-blocking helps you structure your day

to condense work into a specific time frame and
window, rather than staring at a long list of
tasks on a to-do list. Providing structure, it’s a
crucial way to increase your productivity, limit
pointless meetings, and create more impact in
your organization.” – Justin Grossbard, CEO at 
Compare Forex Brokers.
 16. Take your breaks

“There is a reason why powerlifters take five

to six minutes to rest between sets, the energetic
system takes that long to replenish properly.” –
Tim Ferriss, American entrepreneur, investor,
author, podcaster.
 17. Avoid Multitasking 

“People think focus means saying yes to the

thing you’ve got to focus on.  But that’s not what
it means at all.  It means saying no to the
hundred other good ideas that there are.”
– Steve Jobs, American inventor, designer and
entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief
executive and chairman of Apple.
 18. Drink Water

“Start and end the day with a huge glass of

water (I drink plenty of water throughout the
day as well). Proper hydration is key to
productivity, energy, and mental clarity. It also
helps curb cravings for unnecessary junk food.
Oftentimes when you feel sluggish, you’re
actually dehydrated. Grabbing a coffee or
energy drink will not help, but water will. And it’s
free!” – Rachna Govani, Founder of Foodstand.