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

Roger Kaufman; Hugh Oakley-Brown; Ryan Watkins; Doug Leigh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787965030 ISBN 13: 9780787965037

Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover:

strategic planning that aligns people, performance, and payoffs

Written by a team of strategy experts that include renowned researcher Roger Kaufman, consultant Hugh Oakley–Browne, and scholars Ryan Watkins, and Doug Leigh. Strategic Planning for Success is a practical guide that defines, relates, and integrates what you and your organization must know, do, and deliver for genuine performance improvement.

"Dr. Roger Kaufman and his team provide a handbook that helps all organizations answer, 'What value do we add?' 'How do we measure performance and results or critical success factors?' Strategic planning questions are models of essential tools for leaders of change."
―Frances Hesselbein, chairman, board of governors, The Drucker Foundation

"Strategic Planning for Success is a thoroughly researched and robust collection of concepts and principles that can add value to management planning and task execution at organizations large and small. I highly recommend it to managers who don't want to be left behind in today's era of dynamic change."
―Wess Roberts, author, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

"Kaufman, Oakley–Browne, Watkins, and Leigh give every organizational leader a new map for driving across the land we call 'the future.' Clear, organized, and focused―a must have!"
―Jim Hill, director, Sun Microsystems

"This book offers an effective and comprehensive guide for those who design, evaluate, and implement strategic plans. Its strength is its clarity, its holistic approach, and its focus on results. Exceptionally useful for anyone engaged in positioning complex enterprises for future success."
―John V. Lombardi, chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Strategic Planning for Success offers clear, organized, and direct answers to vital and focused planning questions."
―Richard E. Clark, professor, Educational Psychology and Technology, University of Southern California

Copublished with the International Society for Performance Improvement

About the Author:

The Authors

Roger Kaufman is director of Roger Kaufman & Associates and professor and director of the Office for Needs Assessment and Planning at Florida State University. Hugh Oakley–Browne is managing director and founder of Hugh Oakley-Browne and Associates in New Zealand, and a performance improvement executive with BHP in Australia. Ryan Watkins is an assistant professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Doug Leigh is an assistant professor at Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0787965030
• ISBN 13: 9780787965037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416