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[from THE FUTURIST, March-April 2003]
Strategic Planning for Smart Leadership: Rethinking Your Organization's Collective Future through a Workbook-Based, Three-Level Model by William J. Austin. New Forums Press Inc., www.newforums.com. 2002. 326 Pages. Check price/buy book.
Handbook for Strategic Planners
This is a book for every manager trying to plan a project with a blank slate or under an organization's cloudy vision. Strategic Planning for Smart Leadership is a nuts-and-bolts "how-to" for strategic planning--practical, simple, and systematic. Designed to be user-friendly, the book offers specific courses of action for leaders to guide teams to their fullest potential.
The book includes three workbooks offering step-by-step planning instruction. Each workbook focuses on one aspect of the organization's development--institutional, departmental, and personal--helping the user identify weaknesses, ask probing questions, and suggest actions and strategies for success.
Author Austin looks also at theories grounding strategic planning, explores the essence of inspiration, discusses the value of incentives and rewards, and encourages rethinking past practices. Absorbing this book's principles and applying Austin's planning techniques ought to expand any organization's potential.
Reviewed by Clifton Coles
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