Book description
Our world is changing and changeable. Do you know where your organization is headed? Can you justify why you should go there? And provide the criteria for judging your progress and success? This pocket guide helps you through the process of creating a better future by giving you the principles and tools of mega thinking and planning.
Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- What this Book Will Do for You
- Chapter 1: The Basic Concepts Required to Define Success Using Mega Thinking and Planning
- Chapter 2: The Organizational Elements Model: Ensuring that We Work at the Correct Level
- Chapter 3: The Ideal Vision: Selecting Where You Are Headed and Justifying Why You Want to Get There
- Chapter 4: Six Critical Success Factors for Successful Mega Thinking and Planning
- Chapter 5: Objectives and Performance Specifications: The Criteria for Accomplishment
- Chapter 6: Mission Objectives: Preparing the Objective for Your Organization
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Chapter 7: Needs and Needs Assessment
- Need is NOT a Verb!1
- Needs, Nouns, Verbs, and Conflict
- Needs Are Not Wants, and Means Are Not Ends
- Working with Needs as Gaps in Results
- Recording Your Needs Assessment Data
- Needs, Needs Assessment, and Evaluation: Related Yet Different
- Doing Needs Assessments
- Costs and Consequences15 in the Context of Needs Assessment
- Using Costs-Consequences Analysis in Any Organization
- Chapter 8: Implementing the Mega Plan
- Chapter 9: Evaluation and Continual Improvement: What Worked, What Didn’t, What to Keep, and What to Change
- Chapter 10: Some Final Guidance
- Glossary of Terms
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Mega Thinking and Planning
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2011
- Publisher(s): HRD Press
- ISBN: 9781599962511
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