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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

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This includes your statements of mission, vision, and strategy (preferably on the same page), plus your key strategic areas, critical issues, the long-term objectives related to each key strategic area and, where appropriate, major actions (not complete strategic action plans) required to reach your long-term objectives.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone; instead, try a long-term relationship based on established loyalty and trust. Eliminate MBO.

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