strategic planning

Over thirty essays present ideas and predictions about leadership and how it will operate and be characterized in the future.

Explains how to write a business plan, providing detailed guidance on and examples of each plan section, U.S. tax information, and plan packaging and updating; and includes three complete plans from actual companies, blank forms and work sheets, and a glossary of business and financial terms.

Author believes that most attempts to transform companies into stronger competitors fail because the implemented changes do not alter employee behavior. In this book he presents an eight-step process designed to provide the leadership and positive role models needed to accomplish positive, productive change.

Peter Schwartz examines the innovations and dynamic forces that are shaping the world today and discusses how they may impact the future, encouraging people to look towards the future so they can fully comprehend the consequences of their own actions and their link to changes in society, the economy, government, and the environment.

Presents the findings of a long-term study on a group of companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained those results for at least fifteen years, looking at how those businesses compared with organizations that failed to achieve high performance, and identifying the factors that make the difference.

Features anecdotes and personal stories which capture the advice, wisdom and guiding principles of today's top CEO's and entrepreneurs.

Businessman Jack Welch shares the management strategies that helped him rise to the top of the business world and explains how those strategies can be applied to any company.