Planning, common sense, and superior performance / by Erwin Rausch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rausch, Erwin, 1923-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Business planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : IAP - Information Age Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plaintext description.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""CHChapter 1 Introduction""; ""A Brief Summary of the Book�s Message""; ""Strengths and Limitations""; ""How to Use This Book and for What""; ""The Book�s Conceptual Foundation""; ""Decisions and Plans, and Their Quality""; ""Benefits of Using Universally Applicable Questions in Decisions and Plans""; ""A Few Points About the Use of Universally Applicable Questions in Decisions and Plans""; ""An Illustrative Example""; ""Realism""; ""Two Caveats""; ""Part I: Foundations ""

""CHChapter 2 Using an Eight-Questions Model for Better Leadership Decisions and Plans""""The two Types of Issues to Consider in Decisions and Plans""; ""Important Definitions for use in this Book: Leadership, Goal, Objective, Issue, Model, Knowledge, Skill, Competency, Norms, Main Question, Subsidiary Question, and Steps in the Decision Making and Planning Process""; ""Deriving Useful Questions for Decisions and Plans from the Leadership-in-Management Responsibilities ""; ""The Eight-Questions Model""; ""Communications""; ""Participation""; ""Competence, Learning, and Selection""

""Satisfaction""""Progress and Performance Reviews""; ""Coordination, Cooperation and Conflict""; ""Norms, Organizational Justice, Ethics, Positive Discipline, and Counseling""; ""Goals and Action Steps""; ""Decision and Plan Quality Monitoring, With and Without Technology""; ""CHChapter 3 Applying the Eight-Questions Model: A Basic Analysis Example""; ""The Example Scenario""; ""Analysis Procedure (Introduction)""; ""Procedure Steps""; ""The Analysis""; ""Step 1""; ""Step 2""; ""Step 3""; ""Concluding Thoughts""; ""Part II: Issues which Managers Should Consider in Every Decision and Plan ""

""CHChapter4 Question 1: Communications""""Introduction""; ""Question 1.1""; ""Question 1.2""; ""Question 1.3""; ""Question 1.4""; ""Question 1.5""; ""Conduct of Effective Meetings""; ""Tongue-in-Cheek Thought 1""; ""Tongue-in-Cheek Thought 2�Rausch�s Laws of Meetings""; ""1. Maybe a Meeting is Not Necessary""; ""2. Prepare Carefully""; ""3. Call Only the Necessary People to the Meeting Who Are Really Needed""; ""4. Send Timely Notices and Reminders ""; ""5. Urgent Meetings Do Not Necessarily Have to Be Postponed""

""6. State the Objective of the Meeting at the Beginning, and Then Keep the Meeting Focused on That Outcome""""7. Conclude with a Plan""; ""Summary""; ""CHChapter 5 Question 2: Participation""; ""Introduction and Benefits of Appropriate Participation""; ""Subsidiary Questions for Participation""; ""Question 2.1�Who Should be Invited to Participate?""; ""Question 2.2�How, and on What Part of the Decision or Plan Should the Participants Be Involved?""; ""Question 2.3�When Should the Person or Group be Invited to Participate?""; ""Question 2.4�Where Should the Contact Be?""

""Question 2.5�What Are Other Elements of the Situation?""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-181).

ISBN:

9786611412609

9781281412607

1281412600

9781607526476

1607526476