THE PLAN
IS NO PLAN.

PRACTICAL LEADERSHIP

Do.
Learn.
Adapt.

You don’t need a perfect plan to move forward. You need the courage to act, learn from what happens and change direction when it matters.

Leadership in education

The secret is in the practice.

THEPLANISNOPLAN.ESDO / HAZ

01 / THE MINDSET

The plan is
no plan.

Reality rarely follows the script. The longer we wait for certainty, the longer we postpone learning. Start with what matters. Take a step. Pay attention. Adjust.

This is the spirit of DO: simplify what you can, decide with courage and trust your ability to adapt. A mistake becomes useful when you learn from it and change what you do next.

01Act02Learn03Adapt04Repeat
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Mike Tyson

When reality changes, your response matters more than your original plan.

02 / THE BOOK

DO — The 10 Commandments of the Practical and Effective Person · Iván Ballesteros Cabarga

English edition · Also available in Spanish as HAZ

Ten principles.
One invitation: do.

DO brings together ten practical principles for making clearer decisions, protecting your time and turning intention into action. Simple ideas, made valuable by using them.

Explore the ten principles

01Make it easy.

Remove unnecessary steps. Make the next action simple enough to take.

02Choose results over perfection.

Put something useful into practice, then improve it.

03Let go of what adds no value.

Make room for what matters by removing the unnecessary.

04Decide with courage.

Choose, act and correct your course as you learn.

05Adapt to change.

Stay open to a better way when circumstances change.

06Protect your time and energy.

Notice what drains your attention without moving you forward.

07Move beyond excuses.

Face the facts and take responsibility for the next step.

08Do what is necessary first.

Give your priorities space before filling your day with everything else.

09Solve what is in front of you.

Put your energy into what you can act on today.

10Turn intention into action.

Make the first move. Practice is where the learning begins.

03 / FOR EDUCATION

Leadership begins
with doing.

Iván Ballesteros collaborates with educational institutions to open conversations about leadership, drawing on the ideas in DO and the lessons of practice.

He approaches these encounters as a practitioner sharing experience. He does not see himself as a teacher with all the answers. His conviction is simple: try, make mistakes, learn and try again.

  • Deciding without certainty
  • Learning from mistakes
  • Adapting when things change

“The secret is in the practice.”

A conviction of Iván Ballesteros

04 / THE AUTHOR

Experience,
put into practice.

Iván Ballesteros Cabarga

Professional golfer, entrepreneur, boat skipper and A-licence football coach. His career brings together sport, business and learning through experience.

He worked alongside Seve Ballesteros from 1997 until the final days of his life, serving as his representative and developing international projects related to golf and the Ballesteros Group. He also led Amén Corner as CEO from 2003 to 2013, managing international golf events with his team. He later spent ten years in Hong Kong, where he developed a variety of projects and, above all, learned a great deal about how things are done in China.

He founded iBPUTTER Sweet Spot, his own golf club brand, specialising in putters and sold internationally. He is the author of DO and Because the Game is on the Green.

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Less waiting.
More doing.

A conversation about leadership can start with a simple question: what can we put into practice today?

Let’s talk about your institution

info@theplanisnoplan.es