Master Planning: The Complete Guide for Building a Strategic Plan for Your Business, Church or Organization

I have used this book and its methods for years. I am now teaching it to others. I bought several copies for others enrolled in my seminar...so they wouldn't have to search for it themselves. Master Planning, and its ARROW methodology, is a fairly simple method of getting the big picture of where an organization stands at any given point of evaluation. Other resources are explained throughout the book to keep an organization on track. The first time I came into contact with the book, I was obligated by my organization to read part of it. We would be using it as an organization and would be sitting through some strategic planning using this very method. I was not enthused at all, to say the least. However, after going through the material in the book and then in the seminar, I became, in our organization, its greatest fan. I highly recommend it.

Our company bought this book two weeks ago as a guide to develop our "Masterplan". This book lives up to its claim that it can work for any size organization. It gives information on defining roles in organizations, how to define and refine your purpose and masterplan and how to follow through. This book will not only help in our company's ministry on a large scale, but it's already helping me in my division within the company and in my own personal life. This book has more good information than I can mention! I'm buying a copy for myself.

Biehl does a masterful job of articlating his process for creating a master plan. We may know where we want to go, or what we would like to accomplish, but have trouble putting together a clear plan that we can communicate with others. It's a quick read, and you'll find yourself crafting your plan as you're reading the book. Great templates for weekly team reports, annual reviews, position focus sheets, and a master planning arrow. If you lead an organization, specifically a ministry related one, you NEED this book.