Focus Your Business: Strategic Planning in Emerging Companies (3nd Ed.) is a book about strategy and planning in companies that are well past the survival stage.

The first edition was published in 1981 by Addison-Wesley. This book has enjoyed 18 printings over the years. I updated it as "Focus Your Business" in 1997. Over 25,000 copies of the various editions to date have been sold.

All fifteen chapters of Focus Your Business are available to you at this time, free of charge. Click on the links below to download individual Commandments in Acrobat .pdf format.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction - to Focus Your Business

Chapter 1 - Dimensions of Planning

Chapter 2 - Managing by Objectives

Chapter 3 - Excel at One Thing

Chapter 4 - Pathways to Growth

Chapter 5 - Summary of Chapters 1-4

Chapter 6 - Selecting Planing Units

Chapter 7 - Hierarchy of Planing Techniques, Part I of III

Chapter 8 - Hierarchy of Planing Techniques, Part II

Chapter 9 - Hierarchy of Planing Techniques, Part III

Chapter 10 - The Planning Process

Chapter 11 - Summary of Chapters 6 - 10

Chapter 12 - Setting Expectations

Chapter 13 - Taking the Pulse of your Organization

Chapter 14 - Managing vs. Doing

Chapter 15 - Building for the Long Haul