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The Executive Guide to Facilitating Strategy
STOP WASTING TIME DEVELOPING STRATEGIC PLANS THAT DON'T GET IMPLEMENTED! Far too often, people experience strategic planning as a wasted activity-painful, unproductive, and irrelevant to the issues at hand. And once planning is done, the product usually gets put on a shelf, never to be looked at again. The Executive Guide to Facilitating Strategy provides executives, leaders and facilitators with a step-by-step resource for guiding their team through all phases of the strategic planning process - from gaining the team's buy-in to do planning and identify strategic issues, all the way through organization alignment, implementation, monitoring and making adjustments. This book delivers the Drivers Model, a powerful tool to help you facilitate your organization through the development of a strategic plan from start to finish, whether you lead a corporation, government agency, non-profit organization, business unit, department, or team. The Drivers Model is a simple but dynamic process that covers the seven key principles for masterful planning, from thoroughly identifying critical issues to establishing a rigorous process for driving successful implementation. You'll also discover -
- GenresLeadership
284 pages, Paperback
First published October 3, 2011
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March 25, 2023
It's difficult for me to write a review of this book.
First, the author's style was direct, and he exercised an intense focus on the practitioner implementing a strategic planning process. For that, I was appreciative. This book appeared on the syllabus of a graduate course I was assigned to teach. My students appreciated the how-to nature of the writing. Yet, in the Kindle version at least, there were numerous typos, and the formulaic presentation of each chapter was like reading 360 pages of nothing but iambic pentameter.
Second, I've used information from this book in my consulting planning pursuits. Wilkinson's recognition of infinite verbs to start goals was excellent and useful, as was the related note of using quantifiable verbs for objectives. Still, despite the author emphasizing the simplicity of the Driver's Model, it's a system that leans toward needing a professionally-trained facilitator. Once deconstructed, the model is relatable, but on its surface, it's anything but.
In summary, it's not a book that leaves me with a sense of pleasure or accomplishment upon completion, but it's a book I find myself regularly referencing - a three-star, useful read.
First, the author's style was direct, and he exercised an intense focus on the practitioner implementing a strategic planning process. For that, I was appreciative. This book appeared on the syllabus of a graduate course I was assigned to teach. My students appreciated the how-to nature of the writing. Yet, in the Kindle version at least, there were numerous typos, and the formulaic presentation of each chapter was like reading 360 pages of nothing but iambic pentameter.
Second, I've used information from this book in my consulting planning pursuits. Wilkinson's recognition of infinite verbs to start goals was excellent and useful, as was the related note of using quantifiable verbs for objectives. Still, despite the author emphasizing the simplicity of the Driver's Model, it's a system that leans toward needing a professionally-trained facilitator. Once deconstructed, the model is relatable, but on its surface, it's anything but.
In summary, it's not a book that leaves me with a sense of pleasure or accomplishment upon completion, but it's a book I find myself regularly referencing - a three-star, useful read.
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