Featured Article:

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

by Wes Siegal and Evan Smith

Even promising pilot projects can suffer once they are transplanted from the greenhouse into the organization jungle. In this article, you'll learn how to maximize the success of pilot projects across the entire organization... Read more...

• Settle for Survival, or Go for Growth?

Evan Smith, Chief Learning Officer, August 2012.

• Simplicity as Strategy: There is one sure way of growing in a complex environment

Ron Ashkenas, ChiefExecutive.net, February 15, 2010.

• Build Your Own Change Model

by Robert H. Schaffer and Matthew K. McCreight, Business Horizons, May-June 2004.

• Successful Change Programs Begin With Results

Robert H. Schaffer and Harvey A. Thomson, Harvard Business Review, January-February 1992.

Featured Article:

Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything

by Steve Blank

In this article, you'll learn how to increase the success rate of new ventures – whether they be start-ups or initiatives in large corporations. Read more...

• Diverse Opinions Mean Better Ideas

Charlie Garland and Evan Smith, Diversity Executive, May/June 2013.

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

Wes Siegal and Evan Smith, C2M: Consulting to Management, April 2006.

• Rapid Results: Unlocking the Door to Major Change

Robert H. Schaffer and Wes Siegal, C2M, December 2005.

• Leadership Excellence - Development is a full-time job

Robert H. Schaffer, Leadership Excellence, January 2006.

• The Nuts and Bolts of Execution: Putting Ideas to Work

Theresa Sullivan Barger, Executive Action, June 2006.

Featured Article:

Leadership Excellence - Development is a full-time job

by Robert H. Schaffer

This article describes how Avery Dennison yielded over $50 million in new revenues...More

• Best Foot Forward

Matthew McCreight and Ronald Ashkenas, Northeast Executive, Fall 2009.

• Turning Giants

Robert H, Schaffer, American Executive, May 2006.

• From Pilot Project to Business Strategy: How to Turn Innovation intow Growth

Wes Siegal and Evan Smith, C2M: Consulting to Management, April 2006

• Execution Plain and Simple: You Can Make Great Execution a Habit

by Evan Smith

Featured Article:

Are you diving into the deep end of your talent pool during M&A?

Matthew McCreight, PharmaPhorum, December 2012.

Though talent is usually at the top of the list of strategic objectives at the start of a merger, it rarely is still there at the end. Learn how to utilize this opportunity... Read more...

• Lessons of Scale: Large Deals by Large Companies

Suzanne Francis and Andrew Shapiro, OD Practitioner, Summer 2012.

• Integration Managers: Special Leaders for Special Times

Ronald N. Ashkenas and Suzanne C. Francis, Harvard Business Review, November-December 2000.

• Pleasing the In-Laws: Integrating M&A Across Cultures

Patrice Murphy, Work Style Magazine, Spring 2012.

• Make Acquisitions and Mergers Succeed

chapter 8 of Rapid Results! by Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and Associates, Jossey-Bass 2005.

• 6 Steps to Improve your Post-Merger Integration Fitness

Suzanne Francis, SmartBlog on Finance, April 25, 2011.

• Overcoming Merger Risk

Rick Heinick, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, December 2, 2010.

Featured Article:

Are Banks Too Big to Manage?

Matthew McCreight and Ron Ashkenas, BloombergBusinessweek, December 2012.

Smaller is not necessarily better when it comes to banks. What makes banks so difficult is not their size, but the level of complexity that...   Read more...

• Simplicity-Minded Management

Ron Ashkenas, Harvard Business Review, December 2007. Also available in Spanish.

• Streamlining Pharmaceutical Portfolios: Cutting the Gordian Knot

Wes Siegal and Evan Smith, Pharma, May-June 2012.

• Simplicity as Strategy: There is one sure way of growing in a complex environment

Ron Ashkenas, Chief Executive.net, February 15, 2010.

• Six Steps to Simplifying Your Organization

Ron Ashkenas, The Business Edge, May 28, 2010.

• Passive managers; getting paid to show up at work

Erin Conroy (The Associated Press), Washington Post, September 1, 2009.

Featured Article:

Start With Results, Not Preparations

chapter 3 of Rapid Results! Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and Associates, Jossey-Bass 2005.

Rapid Results projects are not an alternative to longer-term vision and strategic management. Rather they are a necessary, complementary element in major strategic change efforts. Read more...

• Build Your Own Unique Transformation Process

chapter 6 of Rapid Results! Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and Associates, Jossey-Bass 2005.

• From Regulator to Business Enabler: Use Employee Communications to Re-Position Your Compliance Function

Wes Siegal, Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitor, August 15, 2012.

• Why Pay for Recommendations When You Need Results?

Robert H. Schaffer, Strategy and Leadership, Volume 26, Number 3, July-August 1998.

Featured Article:

How to Design Leadership Development for Immediate Gains

by Nadim Matta, Markus Spiegel, and David Whitehead

Learn how Ascom, a global Swiss-based communications company, took steps to transform leadership development from a cost to a profit ... Read more...

• Four Mistakes Leaders Keep Making

Robert H. Schaffer, Harvard Business Review, September 2010.

• Stop Solving Your Business Problems

Keith Michaelson and Markus Spiegel, Leader to Leader, Spring 2010.

• Freeing Managers to Innovate

Matthias Bellmann and Robert H. Schaffer, Harvard Business Review, June 2001.

• Simplicity-Minded Management

Ron Ashkenas, Harvard Business Review, December 2007.

• Leadership Excellence - Development is a full-time job

Robert H. Schaffer, Leadership Excellence, January 2006.

• Results-Fueled Leadership Development

Robert H. Schaffer, Leader to Leader, Number 32, Spring 2004.

• General Electric‘s Leadership WorkOut

Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr and Ron Ashkenas, Leader to Leader, Spring 2002.

• Stand and Deliver

Katie Beavan, Across The Board, January/February 2006.

• Improving Project Results: Operating 'Below-the-Line' to Produce Real Value

Nadim Matta, The Conference Board's Executive Action, Number 125, December 2004.

Featured Article:

Why WorkOut Works: Lessons from GE‘s Transformation Process

Ronald N. Ashkenas, Handbook of Business Strategy, 2003.

This article describes how GE's WorkOut process enables a kind of communication that is often missing in large, complex, global organizations. Read more...

• General Electric‘s Leadership WorkOut

Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr and Ron Ashkenas, Leader to Leader, Spring 2002.

• Mobilize Large Numbers of People In Change

chapter 5 of Rapid Results! Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and Associates, Jossey-Bass 2005.

• Active Facilitation: How to Help Groups Break Through Mutual Stalemate

Celia Kirwan and Wes Siegal, chapter 14 of The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups, Sandy Schuman (ed.), Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Featured Article:

We should Stop Using the Term ‘IT project’: Nadim Matta

Anup Varier, CIO, April 2013.

When organizations like GE, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the World Bank want to accelerate implementation and change, they call on Nadim Matta ...a leading expert in accelerating results and building capability in complex... Read more...

• From Pilot Projects to Business Strategy: How to Turn Innovation into Growth

Wes Siegal and Evan Smith, C2M: Consulting to Management, April 2006.

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

Robert H. Schaffer, MWorld, Fall 2006.

• Successful Change Programs Begin With Results

Robert H. Schaffer and Harvey A. Thomson, Harvard Business Review, January-February 1992.