Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson on Strategic Planning)

An updated companion to Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is a step-by-step guide to strategic planning. This second edition is filled with useful tools, including illustrative examples, detailed questionnaires, and easy-to-understand worksheets. It takes users through every step of creating a tailored strategic plan, from concrete guidelines for brainstorming sessions, to developing show cards, to outlining a workshop equipment checklist.

JOHN M. BRYSON is a professor of planning and public affairs at Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He is the author of the best-selling Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (1988) and coauthor with Barbara C. Crosby of Leadership for the Common Good (1992), both from Jossey-Bass. FARNUM K. ALSTON is the founder and president of The Resources Company, an international consultant firm that specializes in strategic planning. He is a former deputy chief administrative officer of the City and County of San Francisco.