Master Planning: The Complete Guide for Building a Strategic Plan for Your Business, Church or Organization [Hardcover]

Bobb Biehl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1997

Every organization runs the risk of being stunted by the lack of a clear simple plan. After 20 plus years as the President of Masterplanning, Bobb Biehl has used the process and principles in this book to help over 200 teams in their planning process.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805460969
• ISBN-13: 978-0805460964
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #697,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical process-turns vision into reality, December 18, 2000

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Dave Tilma (White Bear Lake, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Master Planning: The Complete Guide for Building a Strategic Plan for Your Business, Church or Organization (Hardcover)

Biehl does a masterful job of articlating his process for creating a master plan. We may know where we want to go, or what we would like to accomplish, but have trouble putting together a clear plan that we can communicate with others. It's a quick read, and you'll find yourself crafting your plan as you're reading the book. Great templates for weekly team reports, annual reviews, position focus sheets, and a master planning arrow. If you lead an organization, specifically a ministry related one, you NEED this book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterplanning: A Complete Guide for Building a Strategic Plan for Your Business, Church, or Organization, February 23, 2010

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This review is from: Master Planning: The Complete Guide for Building a Strategic Plan for Your Business, Church or Organization (Hardcover)

I have used this book and its methods for years. I am now teaching it to others. I bought several copies for others enrolled in my seminar...so they wouldn't have to search for it themselves. Master Planning, and its ARROW methodology, is a fairly simple method of getting the big picture of where an organization stands at any given point of evaluation. Other resources are explained throughout the book to keep an organization on track.

The first time I came into contact with the book, I was obligated by my organization to read part of it. We would be using it as an organization and would be sitting through some strategic planning using this very method. I was not enthused at all, to say the least. However, after going through the material in the book and then in the seminar, I became, in our organization, its greatest fan.

I highly recommend it.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Buy!, June 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Master Planning: The Complete Guide for Building a Strategic Plan for Your Business, Church or Organization (Hardcover)

Our company bought this book two weeks ago as a guide to develop our "Masterplan". This book lives up to its claim that it can work for any size organization. It gives information on defining roles in organizations, how to define and refine your purpose and masterplan and how to follow through. This book will not only help in our company's ministry on a large scale, but it's already helping me in my division within the company and in my own personal life. This book has more good information than I can mention! I'm buying a copy for myself.