Title: The breakthrough strategy : using short-term successes to build the high performance organization /
Authors: Schaffer, Robert H.
Publisher: HarperBusiness,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Organizational change.; Organizational effectiveness.
Contents: The hidden reserve -- The quest to be competitive. Built-in barriers to performance improvement -- Perpetual preparations waste billions -- The breakthrough strategy: success as the building block. The zest factors reveal what's possible -- Design each project for certain success -- Use each success to develop performance capability -- Widening the circle of success -- Breakthrough projects: vehicles for innovation. From proselytizers to allies: a shifing role for staff specialists -- Tactics for mastering strategy -- Management development through management achievement -- Quality improvement by improving quality -- The high-performance, change-oriented organization. Putting it all together.