The best briefs on strategic planning

Three Volume Series

Plan your work and work your plan.
In these three brief, very usable volumes, George L. Morrisey--long recognized as a master in the field--offers his insights on the process of strategic thinking, and tactical and strategic planning. Each volume is valuable on its own; together, they represent an unprecedented resource no informed manager should be without. Drawing on examples from individual departments and work units as well as from the perspective of the total organization, Morrisey's series provides...

The second in a three-volume series, A Guide to Long-Range Planning is written primarily for major unit or corporate group heads responsible for three-to-five-year planning. It helps the team outline long-term objectives and translate the vision, mission, and strategy into future organizational positioning.

As with the other volumes in this series, George Morrisey--long recognized as a leading expert in the areas of planning and strategic thinking--offers his insights into how planning actually works in organizations.

Succinct and easy to read, the books in this...

Make a change for the better

Why do the best-laid plans for organizational transformation go awry? In this compelling work, Dorothy Marcic tells managers that no prescribed formula is ever complete without factoring in the human side of the equation. She asks, How would the workplace change if we acknowledged that spiritual values are as important in the operations of organizations as they are in the lives of the people who work there? The answers -- garnered from real-world examples -- banish the notion that a business can't be both spiritual AND successful, and show what it...

Even the most carefully planned organizational changes can fail if individuals are not taken into consideration. The Human Side of Change is a step-by-step action plan for the change process that takes full advantage of an organization's greatest resource: its people. From planning to implementation to behavior change, Timothy J. Galpin shows how a well-orchestrated approach--one that pays attention to the soft side
aspects of the process--can make the difference between change for the better and no change at all.

Drawing on a decade of consulting experience with businesses...

With escalating demands upon research and assessment growing more varied, surveys are now used to assess and drive organizational change by examining company performance, customer and employee satisfaction, empowerment, and key aspects of corporate culture.

With Organizational Surveys, you'll learn how to:
* Drive change with surveys
* Use 360* feedback
* Set expectations of results
* Deal with ethical concerns
* Facilitate feedback, action-planning, and follow-through . . . and much more

No other book approaches this collection's...

Don't let your company kill you

Open this book at your own risk. It contains ideas that may lead to a profound self-awakening. An introspective journey for those in the trenches of today's modern organizations, Deep Change is a survival manual for finding our own internal leadership power. By helping us learn new ways of thinking and behaving, it shows how we can transform ourselves from victims to powerful agents of change. And for anyone who yearns to be an internally driven leader, to motivate the people around them, and return to a satisfying work life, Deep Change holds the...

Groups, teams, and other new ways of working together have become commonplace in today's organizations. In spite of all of these changes, one element remains the same: the basic building block of all work activities is the individual employee. Points of Influence helps coach managers, team leaders, and trainers to gain a better understanding of employee motivation and how they can influence behavior, increase their own personal self-awareness, and expand their managerial skills.

Explore the spiritual side of business

The best-selling author of Healing the Wounds writes another prescription for our transition-induced ailments. Here he addresses the self-defeating ways people and organizations react to rapid, seemingly relentless change, and advocates a steady diet of learning as the surest way to break free. Associating various responses to change with four character types -- The Overwhelmed, The Entrenched, The BSers, and The Learners -- the author holds up The Learners as the attainable ideal...and shows how to help those in the other categories pursue...

Discover a unique, cross-functional approach to developing strategy

Earn the loyalty of your customers and the allegiance of your shareholders at the same time. The Market Value Process provides a groundbreaking, practical approach to linking customer and shareholder value in a marketplace where price-cutting is king. It details a twelve-step framework for determining how well customer needs are being met, building strategies for meeting those needs, and ensuring those strategies create enough customer and shareholder value to work successfully. With new thoughts on topics such...

Your roadmap for the new world of work

Today's deluge of organizational change needn't leave employer and employee at odds. Free Agents presents a win-win scenario for both. Here, individuals learn how to take charge of their lives and careers, to separate themselves from their jobs and redefine themselves in terms of the new marketplace. Organizations discover a process for aligning the needs of these empowered professionals with the needs of the organization. It helps them to improve their competitive advantage, create and sustain a Free Agent community, and establish an...