Stealing Smart: For-Profit Best Practices for Nonprofits

"I see nonprofits go through strategic planning exercises often wasting days and days of executives' time developing big plans for the next three, five, 10 years," he says. "Often these plans are not truly strategic but long-term, tactical plans."

The best businesses, such as IBM and Honda, think about if they do something today, how is that going to help the company in two years, five years, 10, even 20 years.