John M. Bryson - Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement

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FIFTH EDITION

JOHN M. BRYSON

Leading and managing public-serving organizations in complex environments is a distinct form of professional practice, and strategic planning is one of its key aspects. Bryson has thought through this issue from every angle, so the fortunate reader of the latest edition of this landmark book can readily deliberate about how best to apply their own intelligence to leading and managing public service organizations in the here and now, wherever and whenever that may be.

Michael Barzelay

Professor

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Nobody captures the processes, insights, and strategies for strategic management like John Bryson does. He has produced another tour de force with the fifth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations.

Frances S. Berry

Reubin O'D. Askew Eminent Scholar and Frank Sherwood Professor of Public Administration

Askew School of Public Administration and Policy Florida State University

The new fifth edition gives us a new best-book-in-the-world on strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations. Bryson does a masterful job of integrating intellectual insight and practical knowledge, showing conclusively that good theory can be very practical.

Barry Bozeman

Arizona Centennial Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Public Management

Director of the Center for Organization Research and Design

Arizona State University

Public and nonprofit leaders are facing significant and unprecedented challenges today. Navigating these challenges and creating innovation in a complex world without a roadmap and guideposts is impossible. Once again John Bryson, in his latest edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, provides a clear framework for creating sustainable change in a complex world. This book is a must-read for leaders and managers to effectively create strategies for transformative change.

Gary Cunningham

President and CEO of the Metropolitan Economic Development Association

Minneapolis, MN

In a time of great uncertainty for public organizations, strategic management is a must to survive. Bryson's new book shows the way forward and how to manage it. A must-read for practitioners and students alike, which treats the whole strategic planning and management process and activities in depth.

Erik Hans Klijn

Professor

Department of Public Administration and Sociology

Erasmus University

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

President

International Research Society for Public Management

There has never been more pressure on public and nonprofit leaders to demonstrate their value to the world. Strategic planning is a key means to do so, but too often it becomes a make-work exercise in practice. To avoid that trap, read this book. John Bryson is the undisputed master of how to make strategic planning work in the public and nonprofit sectors, and this book is the bible on the topic.

Donald Moynihan

Professor and Director

La Follette School of Public Affairs

University of WisconsinMadison

Anyone working in complex systems and facing dynamic change should grab this book to help you think, prepare, and act. For the novice, it provides an invaluable foundation for approaching strategy development and execution. For the experienced leader, this resource offers fresh tools and insights on applications that can energize your efforts within and across organizations.

Laurie Ohmann

Senior Vice President of Client Services & Community Partnerships

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN

John Bryson's Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations is THE book I always recommend to practitioners and academics alike. There is no better book on planning on the market today.

Rosemary O'Leary

Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor

Director, School of Public Affairs

University of Kansas

President

Public Management Research Association

Bryson's work has benefited innumerable practitioners and students in the US and well beyond it. Now this fifth edition even further ties together strategic planning with strategic thinking, acting, and learning. The book thus completes an impressive intellectual trajectory across the field of the strategic management of public services organizations.

Edoardo Ongaro

Professor of Public Management

The Open University

United Kingdom

President

European Group for Public Administration (EGPA)

John Bryson is the doyen of strategic planning for public services. This fifth edition of his book is essential and required reading for all students and practitioners.

Stephen Osborne

Chair of International Public Management

University of Edinburgh

Editor

Public Management Review

This new edition is a great resource for practitioners, scholars, and students learning the art and science of strategic planning as a basis for strategic management. It operationalizes practical guidance, showing how strategic thinking, acting, learning, and deliberation have to be designed and integrated into the strategic planning process.

David M. Van Slyke

Dean and Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Syracuse University

The new edition of this most authoritative book on public and nonprofit strategic management responds effectively to the changing environment of our time, incorporating more content on governance, collaboration, deliberation, sustainability, and public value creation. Beautifully written, theoretically sound, and practically useful, it is a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and students who want to keep abreast of the field.

Kaifeng Yang

Professor

Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy

Florida State University

Dean and Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy

Renmin University of China

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