If someone said they were offering you a strategy...

[CoolBee]

Opinions sort please!

I am planning a non-fiction book. I believe I have identified a gap in the market, and have of course been looking at books purporting to cover broadly similar ground and for reviews of why they did/didn't 'cut' it for the reviewer.

One book suffers from the criticism that it offers merely exercises and not a strategy despite its title.

If a book said it were offering you a STRATEGY, what would YOU, dear forumsters, not a million miles removed from my possible target audience, be looking for?

(assume it's something related to PD - obviously I can't be more specific right now).

[Brutha]

When it comes to publishing books, think about testing the title with Google Adwords. It worked for making Tim Ferriss and Ramit book New York Times bestsellers.

When it comes to strategy, the problem isn't information about what to do about about how to actually implement all those wonderful things like daily excercise into your life.

Additonally the interesting about whether of how much the strategy paradox as defined in the book by that title applies to PD.

[CoolBee]

Good advice - thanks.

[ssandra]

If a book would offer me a strategy, obviously I would be expecting a strategy....

What else??

[CoolBee]

Of course- but - what constitutes strategy in your opinion in terms of PD?

I'm sort of slightly stuck in corporate mode I think where we would say stuff like 'our strategy is to do this and the other in order to prevent/promote/produce blah blah effect/result'.

Is this viable for PD - or is it better to say 'the goal is to help you blah blah, and the strategy is to explore this than and the other and help you put it in a big pot cook it up and make a new cake'.

I guess I'm tangling myself up in to semantic knots right now, too many late nights. It's 4am here

[ssandra]

I think a strategy in PD (and anything else) would be:

You are here now. We want to get there. I will take you via this and via that, until you get there. You might run into something. You can do anything to fix that. I will give you exercises on how to get there.

And than plan your chapters according to this "roadmap" where you tell them again where they are now and where you are going.

[CoolBee]

Thanks ssandra, that's been helpful.

So I think I need to think more in 'science teacher course planning' mode.

The aim of the course is to blah di blah.
At the end of the course the student will be able to blah di blah di blah,

Along the way the student will practise this and that, gain experience in the other in order to develop this that and the other skill, technique, or whatever.

I'm trying to see what the 'other guy' did that earned such scorn from the reviewer and make sure I address it.

I shall review that after some sleep and see how much sense it does or doesn't make! LOL!