QuotePlans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker
Yeah, gotta be careful about that degeneration stuff.
Two thoughts beyond Drucker's anagrammatic wit.
1) Plan the work, work the plan.
2) The manager's job consists of five activities: planning, oganizing, directing, monitoring, and reporting.
I never found work degenerating. Only effete management gurus and some politicians might find it so.