January 2018
Beginner
544 pages
16h
English
No, I can't say as I ever was lost, but once I was bewildered pretty bad for three days.
—Daniel Boone
Make-believe is at the heart of play, and also at the heart of so much that passes for work. Let's make-believe we can shoot a rocket to the moon.
—Diane Ackerman, poet and essayist
This chapter presents my preferred approach to strategic planning and management for public and nonprofit organizations, collaborations of various sorts, and communities. This generic approach, called the Strategy Change Cycle, does what public and nonprofit scholars assert planning should do—if it is to be strategic planning (Bryson, Edwards, & Van Slyke, 2017). Specifically, planning that is strategic will demonstrate: