Upside-Down seems to be a strange way to go about planning. But the practice will revolutionize your strategic planning, making it far more effective and creating a renewed sense of commitment among all your stakeholders. This book will explain what Upside-Down Strategic Planning is, and take you through all the steps necessary. It also applies the Upside-Down model to annual and tactical planning, as well as to daily decision making. The model flows out of Biblical principles, but throughout the book, the authors lead those who might not be guided by Scripture into other ways of understanding the same truths
About the Author: Bob and Linda have been married for 42 years and have a daughter, son-in-law and two wonderful granddaughters. Their greatest delight in life is walking in the counsel of the Holy Spirit. Bob has made a career out of facilitating more productive and satisfying relationships among people in the work place. He has experience in both public and private sector, for profit and not-for-profit corporations, union and non-union shops, and in urban and rural settings. He holds a Masters degree in Hospital and Health Care Administration. He has provided consulting services ranging from statewide systems change projects to one on one coaching for skills improvement.
Past clients include various departments of state and local governments, various professional associations, urban and rural health delivery systems, hospitals, nursing homes, and small businesses in numerous industries. He specializes in the development and use of ethical systems in quality, productivity and service delivery and in strategic thinking, planning and decision-making.
For 13 years he owned and operated a franchise business providing peer group and individual coaching to business owners. He has facilitated several statewide task forces; private, for-profit, in-house quality improvement teams; non-profit boards and staff work groups; and works with resolution of inter-group conflict.
He has co-authored two training manuals in divergent subjects-one, in statistical process control and the other in interviewing victims of child sexual abuse. He is a co-developer of the Leadership Development Academy, a customized, five-day curriculum to improve quality in leadership.
Linda founded and is the chief instructor for Greater Works Ministries, a not-for-profit that shares what the Bible teaches about faith and healing. She has traveled throughout East Africa, China and Guatemala and has taught over 25 schools in the U.S. She is in leadership positions in both churches the Ryans attend weekly. Linda spends much of her days discipling and praying with other women and is deeply involved in a deliverance ministry.
Together, Bob and Linda founded Market 70 to equip and disciple organizations and individuals in marketplace transformation. Market 70 builds and maintains Bridges for Transformation globally. info@market70.com - 612-965-2253 info@greaterworksministries.us
