Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change

Robert Schaffer forever changed management consulting for the better, with his first book Break-Through Strategy Breakthrough Strategytwo decades ago. Now with his colleague Ron Ashkenas he continues teaching the next generation of 21st century consultants how to best engineer Large-Scale Change. Consultants who have earned their spurs in one of the big buzz-word bee-hive consulting firms Das Boston Consulting Group Strategie-Buch. Die wichtigsten Managementkonzepte für den Praktiker. may be surprised to learn that 'small is better' when it comes to getting rapid results in a flow of low-risk '100-Day Projects', without becoming submerged in a swamp of super-size, spreadsheet Sigma-Six Stats. If the truth be told, '100-Day Action Projects' are taught by Blanckenberg & Blanckenberg at One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ for managers to apply at home Break 100 Now: From Hacker to Golfer in Just 90 Days as well as in the office The New Leaders 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results .... more as a way of life and not just an on-the-job management tool. However, no other consultant teaches it better than Robert Schaffer in RHS & A Consulting Master Classes and in this state-of-the-art book. The more you believe you know about '100-Day Action Projects' you more you learn from a Magister Ludi Magister Ludi like Schaffer and his colleagues.

Authors and consultants Robert H. Schaffer and Ronald N. Ashkenas address their book to leaders who face the challenge of making rapid changes in their organizations - especially to those who know they need to move performance to a higher level, yet are too impatient to execute large-scale change. Schaffer and Ashkenas flatly deny that you need to make any trade-off between short-term gains and long-range organizational capabilities. They offer advice about such changes as new information systems, research and development, product innovation, mergers and acquisitions, and even the use of rapid-results projects in developing countries. Essentially, they take a step-by-step approach to building your organization's ability to achieve short-term change with long-term impact. Despite the authors' occasional self-promotional moments, we find that they offer solid, worthwhile information for CEOs, project managers and other executives.

The folks at RHS & A have done a great job outlining the power of rapid results -- and how this approach can make a major impact on any organization. Filled with good examples as well as with helpful approaches to different challenges (mergers, turnarounds, growth, performance improvement).