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What is Strategic Planning?
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Strategic Management Club On Line
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A high level overview of strategic planning and how it is different from
long-range planning. Also includes a section on strategic thinking and
strategic management.
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A membership organization open to business school students studying
business policy and strategy ($29/year membership fee). Benefits include
templates for MS Office, case study links, and job search.
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Strategic Planning Model
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Basic Strategic Planning
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A strategic planning flowchart and working definitions that are commonly
encountered in strategic planning including vision, mission, values,
culture, climate, strategies, tactics, and gap analysis.
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Just what is strategic planning? What are the benefits of strategic
planning? Does every company need a strategic plan?
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Management 101
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Introduction to Management
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Throughout MG 101, we will develop the definition of Management as a
combination of three general methods, or processes, each characterized
by a dominant image.
Introduction to Leadership
Very simply put, leading is establishing direction and influencing others
to follow that direction. However, there are many variations and different
areas of emphasis to this very simple definition.
Introduction to Organization
Introduction to U.S. Business Organizations (for-profit and nonprofit).
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Traditionally, the term "management" refers to the activities (and often
the group of people) involved in the four general functions: planning,
organizing, leading and coordinating of resources.
Performance Management
Simply put, performance management includes activities to ensure that
goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner.
Performance management can focus on performance of the organization, a
department, processes to build a product or service, employees, etc.
Basic Supervision
The following areas of knowledge and skills are typically mentioned among
those that should be mastered by supervisors....
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Books
Kiser and Gibson-Meiers' Recommended list
Communicating Change:
How to Win Employee Support for New Business Directions; by Sandar Larkin, T. J. Larkin,
McGraw-Hill (April 1994).
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Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge:
How to Succeed from a Support Position; by Geoffrey M. Bellman; Berrett-Koehler (September 1992).
Influence Without Authority
by Allan R. Cohen, David L. Bradford, David F. Bradford; John Wiley & Sons (August 1991).
The Leader's Change Handbook:
A complete guide to creating and managing wealth. The book that Wall Street does not want you
to read!
Lightning in a Bottle:
Proven Lessons for Leading Change; by David H. Baum; Dearborn Trade (June 2000).
Shaping the Adaptive Organization:
Landscapes, Learning, and Leadership in Volatile Times; by William E. Fulmer; AMACOM
(March 2000).
Terms of Engagement:
Changing the Way We Change Organizations; by Richard H. Axelrod; Berrett-Koehler (May 2000).
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