When you think you are green, you keep growing. When you think you are ripe, you begin to get rotten.
Planning is the process that makes a vision happen.
Planning may not be as glamorous and intriguing as some parts of retailing, but understanding it completely will give you an edge over almost all of your competition. Because your competition is probably just going through the motions and not really planning. Authentic planning is virtually a lost art. I talk to many young lions in the furniture industry. Many of the newer generation of CEO's in the furniture business understand the need to plan wisely, to sell their plan to their staff with passion, and to relentlessly strive to keep their plan alive.