Strategic Planning For Success: Aligning People, Performance, and Payoffs [Hardcover]

Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high-impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.

List of Tables and Figures xiii

Preface xix

Introduction 1

1 Busting Old Paradigms and Using New Ones: Defining and Shaping Our Future 4

Chapter Goals 4

Todays Paradigms 5

The New Realities 16

Ignoring the New Realities 18

Paradigms That Work 25

Create a Better Future 27

Summary 34

2 Critical Success Factors For Strategic Thinking That Works 39

Chapter Goals 39

Six Critical Success Factors for Strategic Thinking and Planning 40

Is Change Strategic? 42

The Strategic Thinking and Planning Process 44

The Consequences of Ignoring the Critical Success Factors 51

3 System (And Systems) Thinking 57

Chapter Goals 57

The Organizational Elements Model 58

Defining the Organizational Elements 64

The Organizational Elements Describe a System 72

The Organizational ElementsUseful Applications 79

Planning from a HelÏ