This document discusses planning and decision making. It provides an overview of planning, including defining planning, listing the steps in planning, and discussing the relationship between planning and decision making. Planning allows for decisions to be made in a more intelligent way by providing guidelines and goals. The document also discusses decision making, including defining decision making and listing techniques for decision making, such as using the six C's (construct, compile, collect, compare, consider, commit) and a basic steps process (identify problem, list alternatives, select best alternative, implement, evaluate). Additionally, it discusses using a SWOT analysis as a tool for decision making.