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

Preface vii

Part One: Implementation Capability: Strengthening the Weakest Link

1. A Thousand Cures: Which One is Right? 3

2. The Potential is There to Respond 17

3. Start with Results, Not Preparations 31

Part Two: Rapid Results: Expanding Implementation Capability

4. Gain Rapid Results on Key Goals 51

5. Mobilize Large Numbers of People in Change 73

6. Build Your Own Unique Transformation Process 97

7. Georgia-Pacific Takes It All the Way 111

Part Three: Using Enhanced Implementation Capability to Execute Large-Scale Change

8. Make Acquisitions and Mergers Succeed 133

9. Unleash Implementation Capacity in Developing Countries 153

10. Spark Strategic Momentum with Rapid Results 173

11. Develop Leaders Through Results Achievement 193

Part Four: Conclusion

12. Challenge for Leaders: You Can Make It Happen! Will You? 213

Notes 231

Acknowledgments 237

The Authors 239

Index 243