Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals [Paperback]

George L Morrisey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 7, 1992

A practical guide to help professional (within organization and/or independent contractors) use strategic planning for their own professional success and satisfying personal life. Worksheets, checklists, and charts help clarify personal values, financial concerns, career growth objectives, and business interests.

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From Scientific American

Any professional, or aspiring professional, needs this book. It's a no-nonsense approach to a strategic career life plan. Buy it...and don't loan it out!

From The New Yorker

A complete step-by-step program for personal and professional success, from one of our nation's foremost strategic planning experts.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1st edition (September 7, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881052060
• ISBN-13: 978-1881052067
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,187,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A professional version of the author's earlier work, 'Getting Your Act Together: Goal Setting', from the 80's, September 23, 2006

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Lee Say Keng "KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURER/TECHNOLOGY... (Ho Chi Minh City/Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals (Paperback)

Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals
by George L. Morrisey

I have had this wonderful book since the early 90's.

In a nut shell, this book is a professional version of the author's 'Getting Your Act Together: Goal Setting for Fun, Health & Profit' written in the early 80's. The latter book had also originated from the author's earlier works in the 60's/70's during which he had established a well-respect name in 'Management by Objectives' which included books, training films & corporate seminars/workshops.

'Getting Your Act Together' is also my first book on goal setting, which I have had since the early 80's. In fact, this book led me to the later book.

In a nutshell, these are the key chapters of both books:

Creating Your Future:
- The case for Personal Strategic Planning;
- Determining Your Professional Direction;
- Assessing Your Strategic Values;
- Preparing Your Personal & Professional Mission Statement;
- Identifying Your Areas of Strategic Concern;
- Strategic Analysis of Personal Areas;
- Strategic Analysis of Career Growth Areas;
- Strategic Analysis of Business Development Areas;
- Strategic Analysis of Financial Areas;
- Positioning Yourself with Long Term Objectives;
- Making the Future a Reality Through Strategic Action Plans;
- Where do You go from Here?

Getting Your Act Together:
- What's It all About?
- Where Should I go?
- Where is the Payoff?
- How to set Priorities?
- Getting Agreement & Commitment
- Reducing Goals to Bite Sizes
- How to Write a Measurable Goal Statement?
- How to Initiate an Action Plan?
- How to get moving on anything?
- Where do I go from Here?

Both books are complete with planning exercises, checklists, revealing case studies, & lively cartoons.

What I like about the author's books is that they are systematically designed to actively involve you in structuring - & restructuring - your life. In the business arena, the author is well known for his three-volume set of books on Strategic, Operational & Tactical Planning.

Best of all, the author's writing style is jargon-free, with easy-to-understand language.

My suggestion: For beginners, please go for 'Getting Your Act Together'. For professionals, please go for 'Creating Your Future'.

Whether you are seeking change or improvement in your personal or professional life, these two remarkable books will respectively guide you unerringly to your dreams & goals.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Profe, July 26, 2000

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L. Stevens (Fort Collins, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals (Paperback)

The author has taken his knowledge of stratigic planning for corporations and states them in a manner that professionals can utilize the process concerning careers. The stratigic process can be applied to career growth, personal life, business development or financial planning.