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Planning is the contemplation of possible activities before a choice is made in the hope of ensuring a more acceptable result. Consider the planning of an ordinary day for the type of person who has some choice about what he does. There will be a long list of things to do but insufficient time or energy available to do everything. Priorities have to be set according to the level of anticipated rewards or penalties from doing or not doing different things. Working out the consequences of different activities is not a simple matter since there is continual conflict between daily and longer run priorities, and decisions which may appear to be wise in the present can be nullified by future events. Consequences will also be modified as a result of the interactions between different decisions made over time. A good or bad decision can be undone or improved by a subsequent decision made in the future.
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Dalton, G.E. (1982). Planning. In: Managing Agricultural Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7355-8_4
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