Overview

Few endeavors, business or otherwise, succeed without careful plans that clearly define goals and the strategies to achieve those goals. These goals can be used to create a common purpose within the organization, putting everyone solidly on “the same page.”

Business Concepts provides a format for developing a strategic plan, and then helps you take you to that strategy through the business planning process and to establish measurable goals. This process not only sets forth where your company is going, but also how it is going to get there.

The core of the Business Concepts senior level Strategic Business Planning process is outlined below. In order to best meet your needs while you are continuing to "run the business" on a day-to-day basis, the process is designed to be extremely flexible. This means the decisions about the frequency and duration of the implementation sessions are reached jointly.

The components employed to help both the individual executive and the organization accomplish the desired results include:

Strategic Thinking and Business Planning Approach

• Written materials that ensure that everyone has the opportunity to start out with the same level of knowledge.
• Audio materials that are effective to help the subject matter become "internalized" through reinforcement and spaced repetition.
• A Workbook that both challenges and helps distill thought processes.
• A high degree of interaction among participants, in order to develop both consensus and commitment.
• A facilitator who will act as an "equal opportunity harasser" in order to maximize the beneficial outcome of the implementation.

Fail-Safe Leadership

By David G. Mutchler and Linda L. Martin

Fail-Safe Leadership advances a results-based definition of leadership. It demonstrates how it's possible to grow leaders quickly, and how to align every individual's work effort directly to the company's vision and strategic plan, in order to improve a company's bottom line.

A seasoned agent in the book industry has described the book as: concise, reads well, sharp, and it is to the point.

5 1/2" by 8 1/2"
168 pages
$15.95

About The Authors

Dr. David G. Mutchler, President and CEO of Leadership Development Systems, LLC, a firm that provides leadership services to a wide range of businesses. He is an Affiliate of Resource Associates Corporation, and has trained and consulted locally, nationally, and internationally in such industries as Information Technologies, Radio and Television, Printing, Automotive, Utilities, Construction, Engineering, Publishing, Real Estate, Packaging, Petroleum, Medical, Legal, Financial, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Insurance, Industrial Equipment, and a host of wholesale and retail businesses.

Linda L. Martin founded Resource Associates Corporation. She spent over thirty-five years in the training and development field, personally working with clients in a wide range of business and industry, not-for-profit organizations, education, and government. Her books, manuals, programs, and processes are presently being used by hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. In addition to writing, she contributed as a speaker and lecturer on a wide range of business and achievement issues, and personally coached many executives and business leaders.