TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steiner, George A.
TI  - Strategic planning: what every manager must know 
SN  - 29311101
AV  - HD 30.28 .S74 1979 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - New York
PB  - Free Press Paperbacks
KW  - STRATEGIC PLANNING
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. Nature and Importance of Strategic Planning -- 1. Strategic Management and Strategic Planning -- 2. What Is Strategic Planning? -- 3. Why Systematic Strategic Planning Pays Off -- II. Organizing for Strategic Planning -- 4. Organizing the Strategic Planning Process -- 5. The Chief Executive Officer and Strategic Planning -- 6. Overcoming Anti-planning Biases -- III. Key Considerations in Doing Planning -- 7. Alternative Planning Postures, Cognitive Styles, and Values -- 8. The Situation Audit -- 9. Developing Basic Business Purposes and Missions -- 10. Developing Long-Range Planning Objectives -- 11. Formulating Program Strategies -- 12. Medium-Range Functional Programming -- 13. Translating Strategic Plans into Current Decisions -- 14. Contingency Planning and Alternative Futures Explorations -- 15. The Executive View of Analytical Techniques for Planning -- IV. Implementing Plans -- 16. The Nature and Design of Control Systems -- 17. The Human Dimension in Implementation -- V. Evaluating and Reenergizing the System -- 18. Dangers to Avoid in Strategic Planning -- 19. Evaluating the Planning System and Maintaining a High Payoff -- VI. Applicability of Business Planning Experience in Other Areas -- 20. Personal Lifetime Planning -- 21. What the Private Sector Can Teach the Not-for-Profit Sector -- VII. Concluding Observations -- 22. The Current State of the Art and Future Trends
N2  - This self-taught course in formal management planning presents information for effective organization, acquiring and using information, developing objectives, and translating strategic plans into current decisions
ER  -