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12.03.07  Ron Ashkenas, Robert Schaffer

Leader as Capacity Builder

How successful leaders not only drive for results, but also build into everything they do steps to strengthen the organization’s change capability at every level.

 

Categories: Executive Alignment and Coaching, Leadership Development

03.19.07  Ron Ashkenas, Patrice Murphy, Andrew Shapiro

Rapid Results!: A Chapter from "The Change Handbook"

Learn how companies and governments used Rapid Results projects to build confidence as well as the capacity to manage change.

 

Categories: Rapid Results

01.22.07  Ron Ashkenas, Patrice Murphy, Andrew Shapiro

WorkOut: A Chapter from "The Change Handbook"

A chapter from The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems.

 

Categories: WorkOut

12.04.06  Claudio Avila Tobias

Aprender de los resultados rapidos (English Translation)

English translation of Learning from Rapid Results, the original HBR article written in Spanish for the Harvard Business Review Latin American Edition, December 2006.

 

Categories: Rapid Results, Harvard Business Review

10.02.06  Robert Schaffer

Rapid Results: Easier to Achieve Than the Gurus Will Tell You

If you have to improve productivity significantly, lower costs, shift market focus or make other major changes in your company, cheer up: it can be done much more easily than you probably believe it can.

 

Categories: Rapid Results

06.05.06  Theresa Sullivan Barger

The Nuts and Bolts of Execution: Putting Ideas to Work

Robert Schaffer is quoted extensively in this article which describes the real work involved in achieving measurable results. It offers real-world examples of results achieved by Avery Dennison, United Aluminum and others.

 

Categories: Innovation

06.05.06  Logan Chandler, Bob Frisch

Off-Sites That Work

Of all the meetings top executives attend in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site. From their two decades of experience designing and facilitating strategy off-sites around the world, the authors have distilled a set of best practices that busi…

 

Categories: Strategy Execution, Executive Alignment and Coaching, Harvard Business Review, Leadership Development

04.03.06  Wes Siegal, Evan Smith

From Pilot Projects to Business Strategy: How to Turn Innovation Into Growth

Many significant organizational endeavors begin with pilot projects. In this article, you'll learn how to maximize the success of pilot projects across the entire organization.

 

Categories: Strategy Execution, Innovation, Organic Growth, Rapid Results

01.09.06  Robert Schaffer

Leadership Excellence - Development is a full-time job

This article describes how Avery Dennison yielded over $50 million in new revenues in their first year of using rapid-cycle projects to develop leadership capabilities.

 

Categories: Innovation, Organic Growth, Executive Alignment and Coaching, Operational Excellence, Leadership Development

01.02.06  Katie Beavan

Stand and Deliver

Everyone expects you to make a difference from your first day on the job. This article describes how to make that happen.

 

Categories: Executive Alignment and Coaching
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