Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 5th Edition

THE AUTHOR

John M. Bryson is McKnight Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs in Minneapolis. He works in the areas of leadership, strategic management, collaboration, and the design of organizational and community change processes. He wrote the best-selling and award-winning book, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (1988, 1995, 2004, 2011, 2018), and cowrote (with Barbara C. Crosby) the award-winning book Leadership for the Common Good (1992, 2005). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Dr. Bryson has received many awards for his work, including five best book awards, six best article awards, the General Electric Award for Outstanding Research in Strategic Planning from the Academy of Management, and the Distinguished Research Award and the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration given jointly by the American Society for Public Administration and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration. In 2011 he received the Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration that is given to individuals for “outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended scholarly career of at least 25 years”. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Discoveries, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, ...