The Best Practices Paper

Can These Best Practices Make the Club Effective Once Again? ^PDF - This 26 page paper is the full version of the two page summary that was published in the Club's March 2006 newsletter on pages 33 to 35. Here is the abstract:

This paper takes an honest, fresh look at the Club of Rome from an entirely new perspective. The basic approach is to rate the Club on the four best practices common to all difficult problem solving efforts that succeed, using an analysis based on several key strategic planning documents and the author's own work. There are two broad conclusions: One is that the Club of Rome and its National Associations would become much more likely to achieve their objectives if they made the strategic decision to adopt these best practices or their equivalent. The other conclusion is that the analysis is really the first step in a standard five step approach to business improvement. If the Club decides to initiate this self-improvement process, and applies the five steps and the four best practices with passion and analytical rigor, it will become effective once again.

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