Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson on Strategic Planning) [Paperback]

John M. Bryson (Author), Farnum K. Alston (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787901423 | ISBN-13: 978-0787901424 | Publication Date: October 15, 1995 | Edition: 1st

An updated companion to Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is a step-by-step guide to strategic planning. This second edition is filled with useful tools, including illustrative examples, detailed questionnaires, and easy-to-understand worksheets. It takes users through every step of creating a tailored strategic plan, from concrete guidelines for brainstorming sessions, to developing show cards, to outlining a workshop equipment checklist.

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"Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan teaches how to become a strategic organization. It begins by carefully defining what a strategic plan is, what it is not, what it can and can't do, and interestingly enough, when it shouldn't be attempted. You don't 'read' Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan, you 'participate' in it. Creative exercises and thought-provoking worksheets lead the novice and the pro through a field-proven step-by-step approach to creating lasting strategic change in any organzation." (Mark Baughman, deputy director, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection)

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"John Bryson and Farnum Alston deliver proven tools to help public, nonprofit, and private sector leaders define and deliver on their organizations’ directions. I have used their tools with success in Calgary with its $1.6 billion budget and in very small organizations that have really big challenges. In both cases, Bryson and Alston set the standard!"
--Dale Stanway, former CEO and city manager, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

"Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is both comprehensive and informative and is packed with the information and worksheets you will need to effectively develop and implement your strategic plan."
--Carol A. Jones, children’s services administrator, Los Angeles County, Department of Children & Family Services --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 117 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (October 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787901423
• ISBN-13: 978-0787901424
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #505,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John M. Bryson is a professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. He consults widely on leadership and strategic planning with public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations in the United States and abroad. He is the author of Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Organizations (1994) and Successful Strategic Planning: A Guide for Nonprofit Agencies and Organizations (1993).

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Suitable for Kindle, November 19, 2011

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Perry Miller (Prince Frederick, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson on Strategic Planning) (Kindle Edition)

Not entirely worthless; but you can't print worksheets from the Kindle version, not even from Kindle for PC, apparently. Probably better to get the actual workbook.

5 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable but..., June 28, 2003

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This review is from: Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson on Strategic Planning) (Paperback)

This is a valuable book. But, you should also read "Strategic Organizational Change" by Beitler. They make a great combination.

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very usefull, March 13, 2006

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This review is from: Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

Clear, simple and very practical guide for strategical planning. Very flexible in this concepts and tools.

I suggest broadly.