Plan or Die! 101 Keys to Organizational Success

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-04-16
Publisher(s): Pfeiffer
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Summary

This book explodes the myth that simply coping with unexpected change is effective for the long-term health of an organization. Through a series of parables that illustrate how things are not always as they appear, Plan or Die! clearly shows you why today's most successful organizations are those that are actively involved in creating their own future."[Plan or Die!] provides a highly flexible but very functional road map for firms which need to develop their own planning process." --Thomas W. Morgan, president, Hartson Medical Services Examine the keys critical to shaping your organization's future: * Basing decisions on values * Having a shared vision * Promoting risk taking * Encouraging innovation and flexibility * Maintaining a market focus Learn how the proven Applied Strategic Planning model can work for you. Take part in your organization's future success right now!

Author Biography

TIMOTHY M. NOLAN, Ph.D., is president of Innovative Outcomes, Inc., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also president of the Applied Strategic Planning Institute, an organization committed to making the strategic-management technology advanced by this book broadly available. His consulting practice is devoted to the related areas of strategy development and innovation. Dr. Nolan's clients range from new businesses to the largest coporations and include for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Shaping Your Organization's Future: The Managerial Imperative
1(28)
The Need for Change
3(6)
A Quick Look at Your Organization
9(3)
Blocks to Shaping the Future
12(8)
What Is Needed to Shape an Organization's Future?
20(6)
Ten Keys to Successfully Shaping Your Organization's Future
26(1)
In Conclusion
26(3)
Culture, Values, and Implementing Visions
29(26)
Organizational Visions
30(4)
Organizational Culture
34(2)
Types of Cultures
36(2)
Base Decisions on Values
38(2)
Values as Organizational Anchors
40(5)
Making Values and Behavior Congruent
45(2)
Have a Mission Based Upon a Shared Vision
47(1)
Ambiguous Missions
48(1)
Sound a Rallying Cry and Persevere
49(2)
Commitment
51(1)
Perseverance
52(3)
Changing Organizations and People
55(30)
Resistance to Change
57(6)
Changing Goals
63(2)
Promote and Reward Risk Taking
65(3)
Taking Risks
68(4)
Empower People -- All of the People
72(3)
Proactive Futuring
75(2)
Create and Nurture a Learning Organization
77(8)
From Vision to Reality
85(30)
Encourage Innovation and Flexibility
87(1)
Creativity
88(5)
Innovation
93(8)
Flexibility
101(3)
Monitor and Manage ``Down Board''
104(5)
Maintain a Market Focus
109(6)
Applied Strategic Planning
115(36)
Conduct Applied Strategic Planning
116(1)
What Is Strategic Planning?
117(4)
Down-Board Thinking
121(3)
A New Strategic Planning Approach
124(3)
Planning to Plan
127(1)
Environmental Monitoring and Application Considerations
128(3)
Values Scan
131(4)
Mission Formulation
135(5)
Strategic Business Modeling
140(2)
The Performance Audit
142(2)
Gap Analysis
144(2)
Integrating Action Plans---Horizontally and Vertically
146(1)
Contingency Planning
147(1)
Implementation
148(1)
In Conclusion
149(2)
The Challenge
151(18)
The Need to Shape the Future
152(2)
Barriers to Successfully Shaping the Future
154(8)
Overcoming Barriers
162(5)
The Challenge Is Yours
167(2)
References 169(2)
Additional Reading 171(2)
Index 173

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