Chapter $17$ Assignment

Please answer these questions to the best of your ability using the information that you gathered from reading the chapter, along with information from your own work experience. Please do not copy and paste.

This chapter talks about organizational planning. Explain how three aspects of organizational planning expressed in the book can also apply to your own career plan?

Please read the article in the Content section titled, "How backup plans can harm goal pursuit". Do you agree with the basic logic of the article or do you think it's better to have a contingency plan? Explain using an example.

Please review the section in the chapter about Time Perspectives of Control as it relates to Precontrols, Concurrent Controls, and Postaction Controls.

Please refer back to your Strengths from the StrengthsFinder assessment that you took at the beginning of class. How would your particular StrengthsFinder Strengths relate to these different control mechanisms? Would your strengths help you more in one of the three areas than the other ones? Explain.