Chapter 5 Assignment Questions 1. Define planning and discuss the benefits and pitfalls of planning. Give a few examples from your personal or professional life that capture these benefits or pitfalls in action. 2. Discuss how to set S.M.A.R.T. goals. Give an example of a goal (personal or professional) that meets these requirements. 3. Discuss the development of commitment to goals and effective action plans. 4. Discuss the ways to approach tracking progress towards goals. 5. Discuss how planning changes from upper managers to middle manager to first-level managers. 6. Give an example of the criteria that went into a decision you made recently in your life (personal or professional). Did you weigh the criteria differently? Why might one assign different weights to criteria? 7. Discuss the benefits and pitfalls of GROUP decision making. Give a few examples from your personal or professional life that capture these benefits or pitfalls in action