The Organizational Master Plan Handbook

Preface

The Five Negative Ps—Poor Planning Produces Poor Performance.

—H. James Harrington

Strategic planning has become both a manager’s dream and nightmare. Virtually every type of organization in each and every industry around the world puts strategic planning alignment and accelerating results high up on its improvement agenda. Yet what is it about most organizations and their leaders that cause them to have such a hard time getting aligned behind their vision, mission, and strategic goals, and as a result, winding up getting rid of the employees they want to keep and keeping the ones they want to get rid of, or stifling the creativity and innovation they seek to foster? And why is it that a handful of companies are so successful at ...