planning is only half the battle. Once a plan is created, it must be implemented and monitored by managers and workers to ensure that the plan is being carried out as intended. Controlling is the managerial activity of monitoring a plan’s implementation and taking corrective action as needed. Control is usually achieved with the use of feedback. Feedback is information that can be used to evaluate or correct the steps being taken to implement a plan. Based on feedback, a manager (or worker) may decide to let the implementation continue as is, take plan, or do some midstream replanning.