Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning

Name: Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
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ISBN: 9780029216057

ISBN-10: 0029216052

ISBN-13: 9780029216057

Edition: 1994

Authors: Henry Mintzberg

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In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis and strategy is about synthesis. That is why, he asserts, the process has failed so often and so dramatically. Mintzberg traces the origins and history of strategic planning through its prominence and subsequent fall. He argues that we must reconceive the process by which strategies are created --…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/31/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 458
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowlegdements


A Note to the Reader


Introduction: The "Planning School" in Context



Planning and Strategy



Models of the Strategic Planning Process



Evidence on Planning



Some Real Pitfalls of Planning



Fundamental Fallacies of Strategic Planning



Planning, Plan, Planners


References


Index


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