LotzaTips for Creating a Brass Tacks Strategic Plan: A how-to workbook that helps business owners, managers, and start-up entrepreneurs formulate game-changing, long-term plans

LotzaTips for Creating a Brass Tacks Strategic Plan is a how-to guide that helps business owners, managers, and start-up entrepreneurs formulate no-nonsense strategic plans. It includes proven Brass Tacks Tips and WorkLists that enable planners to devise long-term goals and the most effective ways to achieve them. It can be used by planning teams in large enterprises as well as by solo owner/operators. This step-by-step workbook demonstrates how to use retro-planning to define the essential nature and purpose of an enterprise and plot the Achievements, Accomplishments, and Activities necessary for success in today's highly competitive world. WorkLists help ensure a collaborative effort in selecting goals and finding the most promising paths to their attainment. It helps define the macro challenges of tomorrow and to plot the top priority routes to superior top-line and bottom-line performance. The step-by-step process outlined in this book enables planners to establish priorities and focus their energies on the most appropriate enterprise initiatives. The resulting strategic plan affords a sound platform for the construction of annual business plans.