Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals

Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic Planning for Professionals by George L. Morrisey I have had this wonderful book since the early 90's. In a nut shell, this book is a professional version of the author's 'Getting Your Act Together: Goal Setting for Fun, Health & Profit' written in the early 80's. The latter book had also originated from the author's earlier works in the 60's/70's during which he had established a well-respect name in 'Management by Objectives' which included books, training films & corporate seminars/workshops. 'Getting Your Act Together' is also my first book on goal setting, which I have had since the early 80's. In fact, this book led me to the later book. In a nutshell, these are the key chapters of both books: Creating Your Future: - The case for Personal Strategic Planning; - Determining Your Professional Direction; - Assessing Your Strategic Values; - Preparing Your Personal & Professional Mission Statement; - Identifying Your Areas of Strategic Concern; - Strategic Analysis of Personal Areas; - Strategic Analysis of Career Growth Areas; - Strategic Analysis of Business Development Areas; - Strategic Analysis of Financial Areas; - Positioning Yourself with Long Term Objectives; - Making the Future a Reality Through Strategic Action Plans; - Where do You go from Here? Getting Your Act Together: - What's It all About? - Where Should I go? - Where is the Payoff? - How to set Priorities? - Getting Agreement & Commitment - Reducing Goals to Bite Sizes - How to Write a Measurable Goal Statement? - How to Initiate an Action Plan? - How to get moving on anything? - Where do I go from Here? Both books are complete with planning exercises, checklists, revealing case studies, & lively cartoons. What I like about the author's books is that they are systematically designed to actively involve you in structuring - & restructuring - your life. In the business arena, the author is well known for his three-volume set of books on Strategic, Operational & Tactical Planning. Best of all, the author's writing style is jargon-free, with easy-to-understand language. My suggestion: For beginners, please go for 'Getting Your Act Together'. For professionals, please go for 'Creating Your Future'. Whether you are seeking change or improvement in your personal or professional life, these two remarkable books will respectively guide you unerringly to your dreams & goals.

The author has taken his knowledge of stratigic planning for corporations and states them in a manner that professionals can utilize the process concerning careers. The stratigic process can be applied to career growth, personal life, business development or financial planning.