Planning Your Future: From Futility to Focusing

Strategic positioning needed as competitiveness soars

On my first day as a college president, I looked behind the desk and saw two six-inch, three-ring binders. I was told that the binders contained the college’s ten-year strategic plan that was two years in the making. I was further advised that they had been sitting on the shelf since the plan had been approved by our governing board with little or no ac…