Aiming High: Success Stories of Leadership and Strategic Planning

by Jay W. Spechler

For both the practitioner and the student, Aiming High serves as a benchmark for the best strategic and operational planning practices in America. The broad range of companies and organizations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929059035
• ISBN13: 9781929059034
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Authority Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended!

If you believe that successful leadership can't be codified, Colonel Jay W. Spechler, Ph.D., would beg to differ. A management consultant and professor, the Colonel clearly describes the traits of a successful leader and then details what such a leader must do to guide a strategic planning initiative. Having pinned his model for success to a board like a butterfly, he describes how 18 organizations changed through strategic planning under strong leaders. The Colonel's organizations vary from large corporations - American Airlines, AT & T and Ritz Carlton Hotels - to nonprofit, trade and governmental organizations - a local school board, the United Services Automobile Association and the U.S. Air Force. He nails down and organizes the major elements that make a strategic initiative work. We [...] recommend this book as a refreshing change from the general run of works on theoretical strategic planning. Thanks to his focus on the human and organizational face of leadership and change, Spechler is our new favorite Colonel.