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In Learning to Think Strategically, author Julia Sloan presents a previously unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved - taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is an original primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. This authoritative book traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning, describes the influence of culture, streamlines the roles of rationality and intuition, and identifies five key attributes for learning to think strategically. Learning to Think Strategically asserts that learning is the critical link to strategic thinking. Learning is a "conversion tool" that can transform thinking strategically into a sustainable competitive advantage.

* Part of the leading edge New Frontiers in Learning series
* Application of critical thinking, creativity, reflection, dialogue, testing and reaction to the process of strategic thinking.
* Incorporates activities & exercises that strengthen three levels of learning - instrumental, communicative & transfomative..
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Are you faced with the daunting task of spending millions of dollars on updating, reconfiguring, expanding, or replacing your facility? Healthcare Facility Planning: Thinking Strategically is a practical guide to help you ensure that your facility is flexible and able to meet the needs of patients, caregivers, and payers long into the future. The focus of this book is on predesign planning, a stage of the healthcare facility planning, design, and construction process that is frequently overlooked. Decisions made during this phase have the most impact on long-term operational costs. Detailed examples, guidelines, and case studies will lead you step-by-step through a proven predesign planning process.

Benefit from the author’s 25 years of experience in healthcare facility planning and her involvement in major projects at the Kettering Medical Center and Lee Memorial Health System. This book will help you appreciate the importance of the predesign planning process, understand the trends affecting space allocation and configuration, and learn techniques for planning flexible facilities..
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Starting a business is never easy, neither is it easy being a seasoned entrepreneur. Wouldn't it be nice if someone laid out the basics so that others could save a lot of time, money, and grief? Laura Harris has done just that. Focusing on concepts that will help entrepreneurs avoid costly, time-consuming trial-and-error learning, Harris will guide readers through the challenges of running a business.

Based on the author's own hard-earned lessons and her years of experience consulting with thousands of business owners, Surrender to Win teaches readers how to generate more income, maximize profits, create client loyalty, develop autonomous employees, and decrease the stress that results from 'making it up as you go along.' An entrepreneur can achieve all of this and not be shackled to the business by developing a solid business plan, clear-cut operations, strong leaders, and competent employees.

Harris offers insightful and authoritative advice that both fledgling entrepreneurs and the seasoned businessperson will find helpful and practical. She can teach every business owner how to build a profitable business where employees think and act like owners..
Price: $15.57 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This volume is one of the first to examine the strategy that has characterized the department’s first five years.  It includes contributions from top military, international relations, and security experts.  A variety of issues are addressed including privacy and civil liberties, nuclear terrorism, WMDs, military force vs. diplomacy, and intelligence as a means of countering terrorism..
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Training Budgets Step-by-Step is a useful guide that walks you through each phase of the process, so that you will have the information you need to develop a successful training plan and accurate budget that will get results for your organization. Training Budgets Step-by-Step gives you

• Clear-cut instructions on how to perform each step
• An illustrative case study that helps define every phase of the process
• Blank templates that you can tailor to your organization

Written by training expert Diane Valenti, the book shows you everything from how to conduct the data gathering process to help determine the types of training to create to how to present a completed budget¾one that aligns strategically with your organization's goals. Every step of the way the author provides a wealth of templates, worksheets, lists of questions to ask, action plans, flow charts, interview summary sheets, and other helpful job aids. Training Budgets Step-by-Step also includes a CD-ROM that contains the book's worksheets and templates that can be easily reproduced and customized..
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Professionals today, whether scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, or managers, need to maximize their effectiveness. Real world problems are complex and must be tackled with adequate conceptual tools. Hard work and motivation are not enough. Professionals need to think strategically in order to choose the right problem to solve, to solve it in a cost-effective way, to use resources efficiently, and to be innovative and productive. Written in a concise, accessible style, Thinking Strategically goes beyond brainstorming motivational books to provide the power tools needed to dissect problems and to find innovative solutions. These tools are based on an understanding of the power of bottlenecks, paradox, scale and perspective constraints, and feedback as leverage points for getting a grip on the problem. The result is a practical book for managers and other professionals about the strategic use of effort that can lead to astonishing levels of productivity..
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'From Brand Vision to Brand Value' presents the reader with practical applications for brand building that build upon the theoretical background outlined in 'Creating Powerful Brands', a hugely successful text co-written by the author.

It moves beyond the foundation material in that preliminary text to construct a flow chart for progressing the brand building process from strategy through tactics to implementation. Each stage in the flow process is examined to demonstrate how it can be applied in a real business context. The book provides an authoritative template for understanding the steps to maintaining, building and maximizing brand value.

The best practice will therefore be allied to templates that allow people to undertake appropriate activity within their company. It will be essential reading for practitioners, students and executive courses.

Creating Powerful Brands gives the background and this book contains the practical steps to implement theory
Squarely aimed at practitioners and executive students within/without the CIM
One of marketing's ongoing hottest topics and by the UK's leading brands academic.
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This digital document is an article from Association Management, published by American Society of Association Executives on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: To be an effective association board member is equivalent to upholding and being faithful to the principles of the group. This requires understanding and acceptance of the basic mission of board directors. They must remember that their being is dictated by people who join volunteer groups to satisfy their own needs and to obtain help in solving their problems. This points to strategic planning as the primary responsibility of board members. Since people have changing needs, volunteer leaders must keep in touch with them and design plans based on them.

Citation Details
Title: Being strategic: what it takes for a board to plan - and make decisions - strategically.(board of directors in associations or nonprofit organizations)
Author: Elaine Kotell Binder
Publication:Association Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: American Society of Association Executives
Volume: 51 Issue: 1 Page: 63(5)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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