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When less is more. (keeping planning to a sensible minimum)

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From: Information Outlook
Date: 19980501
Author:Lettis, Lucy

Planning, contrary to popular opinion, may not be necessary or should be kept to a reasonable minimum to succeed in today's competitive world. If plans are kept to a manageable level, frustrations may be avoided when things turn out differently.

In a poem, Robert Browning wrote of a man who painted faultlessly, yet realized that imperfect artists created greater works. "Less is more," sometimes, the painter said, resignedly. In a time when many of us have begun to feel that the accumulation of more - more money, more goods, more prestige, more everything - brings us only less and less ...

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