No-Nonsense Planning

No-Nonsense Planning

by Richard S Sloma
No-Nonsense Planning

No-Nonsense Planning

by Richard S Sloma

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Overview

This easily readable handbook provides insights into the mentality required for effective, successful business planning through realistic, readily adaptable maxims. In 20 concise, brisk chapters Sloma describes the most powerful principles of dynamic planning with specific planning steps whether starting up a new business, introducing a new product, or "selling" an idea up the chain of command.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781893122635
Publisher: Beard Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 01/01/2000
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.72(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

RICHARD S. SLOMA is an attorney and internationally acclaimed lecturer. Twenty-eight years of hands-on management experience as a Board Member, Chairman, CEO and COO of several companies. Hold a J.D. from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of other books on good business practices: No-Nonsense Management, No-Nonsense Planning, How to Measure Managerial Performance and Getting it to the Bottom Line.

Other Beard Books by Richard S. Sloma:
Getting It to the Bottom Line: Management by Incremental Gains
How to Measure Managerial Performance
No-Nonsense Management: A General Manager's Primer
The Turnaround Manager's Handbook

Table of Contents

Part I. The Twenty Basic Principles of Planning Principle
Principle 1. Recognized Planning for What It Is---and Is Not Principle 2. Go for the Jugular!
Principle 3. Knock It Apart---Then Put it Back Together
Principle 4. Always Plan with Events, Never with Processes
Principle 5. Focus on the Increment of Change
Principle 6. Always Plan for Failure
Principle 7. Planning Ensures Execution
Principle 8. Plan Only That to Which the Owners Are Favorably Disposed
Principle 9. Never Plan "Small" Enterprises
Principle 10. Plans are Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Principle 11. The Smaller the Planned Steps, the Better
Principle 12. Relevant Approximations Are Better than Inconsequential Minute Measurements
Principle 13. Master the Planning Process Modules
Principle 14. Don't Set Objectives That Can't Be Monitored
Principle 15. Planning Gets Time on Your Side
Principle 16. Planning Makes You Effective---which is Better than Merely Efficient
Principle 17. Plans Identify Events, People Make Them Happen
Principle 18. Decide to Plan---Because the Plan Is the Decision
Principle 19. Planning is Not Forecasting
Principle 20. Plan Organization with Competence Quanta

Part II.  Planning and Organizational Power
Section A. The Nature of Organizational Power
A Personal Matter
Credibility
Getting approval of the Plan: A Preview
To Persuade or to Convince?
"Up-Power" and "Down-Power"
Plan = Knowledge = Power
Avoiding  a "Veto"
The Carrot and the Stick

Section B. The Eight Ways in which Planning Enhances Organizational Power
Part III.  How to Plan a Business Start-Up: Just Thirty Nine Steps to Success!
Section A. Planning Procedure Overview
Section B. Detailed Planning Steps

Part IV. How to Plan an Ongoing Business
Section A. Preparing the Plan
Section B. Evaluating the Plan


Part V. How to Plan a New Product
Section A. The Financial Plan
Section B. The Technical Plan

Part VI. How to Sell Your Plan: The Human "PERT Chart"
Section A. The "Approval Chain"
Section B. The Approval/"Hot Button" Table
Section C. The Veto Defense Index Table
Section D. Negotiation (or Navigation)

Index

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