A person is faced with planning every day and hourly throughout his conscious life. Whether it's a household, a job, a small, modest firm, a huge corporation, or an entire industry, a plan is essential. That is, of course, you can make such an attempt, but it will not end well.
It would seem that what is simpler: it is reasonable, prudent to manage the household, but without at least an approximate plan, the family will over and over again "not fit" into the budget. Then the wife will not resist the temptation to acquire an expensive, but completely useless trinket. Then the husband will buy completely the wrong products that were needed. Because of this, quarrels and conflicts arise. But this is not so bad; it will be much worse if it turns out that the thoughtlessly taken loan has nothing to repay.
And the organization, the leadership of which acts on the principle of "we will somehow survive without any planning", is unlikely to withstand the competition. Simply because it will not have time (or will not be able, which is more correct) to react to the changing situation properly. Suppose a firm stubbornly continues to produce (or import from abroad) equipment, the demand for which has dropped sharply. And similar firms, having analyzed the needs of the market, planned the transition to other types of equipment in time and carried it out. What will happen to the "stubborn" organization? It will either go bankrupt, or, at best, incur heavy losses.
Or, for example, a construction company, having won a difficult tender, begins work on the construction of a large residential complex. And suddenly it turns out that she does not have the opportunity to provide the construction site with a sufficient amount of cement. Because the supply department employees were negligent in not planning the delivery of this necessary material. They hoped for suppliers, but those do not have additional free volumes of cement, everything is already planned in advance and paid for. In order not to disrupt the construction period, we have to frantically purchase cement from dealers, naturally, at a much higher price. The profit received by the construction company will naturally be lower.
What can we say about the industries uniting many hundreds of allied enterprises. There, all the more, planning is indispensable. Since the slightest failure in the work of one of them will lead to a "fever" in a chain of dozens of plants and factories.
So it turns out that planning is an absolutely necessary thing. Without it, you can easily find yourself in the position of would-be “generals”, about whom a snide proverb has long been formed: “It was smooth on paper, but they forgot about the ravines. And walk on them!"
