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Recommended Resources: Books
Mission and Strategy
The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
A book on the topic of scenario planning that helps people envision the future and prepare for success.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Lays out principles for effectiveness, longevity and financial growth.
Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition
A handbook for identifying and developing the distinctives that make your organization unique.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
A critical treatment of the challenge of focusing organizational energies on what it takes to make things happen in an enterprise.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't
The first of Jim Collin's books to help companies move from mediocrity to excellence.
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Collins applies the lessons of his best-seller to the nonprofit sector.
The Knowing-Doing Gap
An insightful book on how leaders can break the all talk and no action cycle. The subtitle tells it all: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action.
Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask
A book that equips leaders with tools to probe issues and lead enterprises to strategic solutions.
The Northbound Train: Finding the Purpose, Setting the Direction, Shaping the Destiny of Your Organization
This book helps you get the roots of your purpose and is an easy-to-read roadmap for strategic thinking and planning.
Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the New Thing Might Not Be the Right Thing
A practical book on how to conduct a "strategic pause" before you move to innovation.
The Starbucks Experience
Since 1992 Starbucks stock has risen 5,000 percent! This book from Joseph Michelli captures the essence of this phenomenon, explaining how success is found in the ability to create personalized customer experiences, stimulate business growth, generate profits, energize employees, and secure customer loyalty. It a book full of the ingenuity and philosophies that have made Starbucks one of the world's "most admired" companies. Readers find that in order to approach success, they must prepare their organization to reach out to communities, listen to workers and consumers, take advantage of growth opportunities, and design a satisfying experience that benefits all involved.
Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes
Visually map your strategy, and the people within your organization will better understand it, and therefore, be able to execute it more effectively.
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, 3rd Edition
A timeless and foundational overview of the fundamentals of strategic planning for nonprofits.
Strategic Thinking: A Step-By-Step Approach to Strategy, Second Edition
A practical tool to developing a working strategy. Complete with worksheets and processes.
Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit
Offers valuable tools for thinking strategically about value creation, income generation, and growth.
Transforming the Organization
A solid treatment on re-engineering, restructuring, and renewal to create a stronger organization.
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