No-Nonsense Planning [Paperback]

Richard S. Sloma (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000

This effective book emphasizes the importance of timely and practical planning as a tool for making money and never as an end in itself.

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From the Publisher

This easily readable handbook provides insights into the mentality required for effective, successful business planning through realistic, readily adaptable maxims. In 20 concise, brisk chapters Sloma describes the most powerful principles of dynamic planning with specific planning steps whether starting up a new business, introducing a new product, or "selling" an idea up the chain of command.

About the Author

RICHARD S. SLOMA is an attorney and internationally acclaimed lecturer.

Twenty-eight years of hands-on management experience as a Board Member, Chairman, CEO and COO of several companies. Hold a J.D. from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of other books on good business practices: No-Nonsense Management, No-Nonsense Planning, How to Measure Managerial Performance and Getting it to the Bottom Line

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Beard Books (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893122638
• ISBN-13: 978-1893122635
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,453,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Planning for the Strong of Heart, November 17, 2001

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Peter Alexander - See all my reviews

This review is from: No-Nonsense Planning (Paperback)

This is a book you buy and never loan to anyone. Ever. This book saved my bacon more than once. Although I was (and still am) a good marketer, Sloma's genuinely no-nonsense approach taught me critical lessons that allowed a smaller specialty publishing company to outmaneuver and defeat larger companies. Years later, we still own our niche. And I attribute that to Sloma's book. Fortunately, Mr. Sloma wrote several other titles that are a true curriculum for self-employed and corporate managers wanting to be better leaders. These include: Getting It to the Bottom Line, A Handbook of Managerial Performance, and the Turnaround Manager's Handbook. I would balance Sloma with reading Juran on Quality or other similar titles by Juran.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Important Event: Reading This Book, June 26, 2010

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Erol Esen (Liverpool, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No-Nonsense Planning (Hardcover)

Of the 20 business principles laid out in this book, one stands out to me as being the most important. It's the principle #4. Before I quote this principle, let me say where I'm coming from: software development. In this field, we try to do some design and planning of what and how we will develop a piece of functioning software. For notation, we try to use the UML notation to do the design, whether it is written down somewhere or at least thought out. There are different facets to viewing what we wish to build: use cases; classes and relationships between them; activity charts (control flow); sequence diagrams; and state changes. Although Sloma's book is about business, so can software development be looked as one. A business has entities, they relate to each other either statically or dynamically and as a whole, or a system, this business should produce an output. The question I'd been interested in is this: of all the design approaches, which one has the biggest bang for the buck?

Principle 4 in this book states the following: "Always Plan with Events, Never with Processes." So, according to Sloma, the answer is the sequence diagram, which is where events between the objects in an object-oriented design is thought out. I agree with this assessment, because all the other views seem to change drastically based on the dialogues (or events) between system entities. Sloma calls 'events' the "quanta or building blocks" of design. I'll call them hinge points, too, without which all falls apart.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sloma's a Secret Weapon, May 31, 2009

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Mensawarrior - See all my reviews

This review is from: No-Nonsense Planning (Paperback)

I read Sloma's first book, No-Nonsense Management and his punchy, in-your-face style was WAY ahead of its time. He gives it to you straight and I just wish I could have known the man. If you can get your hands on the hard to find No-Nonsense Government it will blow your mind. This particular book is a Planning how-to from the ground up without being pedantic or condescending. Definitely worth it.