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The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution
The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is the latest book in the series written by us to help readers accomplish 20 times the usual rate of progress, the goal of the 400 Year Project we began in 1995.
The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is the first book to show you how to add 20 times more revenues at 96 percent less cost from the same time and effort. This book builds on the principles in the world-wide best seller, The 2,000 Percent Solution. Examples alternate between explaining how for-profit companies can grow profits by 400 times and showing how nonprofit organizations can serve 400 times as many beneficiaries.
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is a brilliant distillation of essential management principles that everyone, and I mean everyone, can use to drive dramatic acceleration of performance. It's packed with great stories that make the principles easy to understand, embrace, and apply. Whether you're a leader in a big, small, for-profit, or not-for-profit organization, you need this book." Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business School, best-selling author of How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End
We focus on helping you create two complementary 2,000 percent One to expand revenues or beneficiaries served by 20 times and the other to reduce costs of customers and beneficiaries by 96 percent while your organization puts forth the same time, effort, and resources.
The book employs two travel Growing the enterprise to 20 times its current size is likened to building a high-speed road; and reducing costs by 96 percent is compared to frugally driving rapidly over such a high-speed road.
Detailed examples spell out the most common challenges facing those who work in such organizations. In addition, you will find dozens of questions you can use to develop your complementary solutions.
"A 400 times increase in results! Is than an outrageous claim? Not if you know how. It's all about leverage - finding the point where small incremental efforts create enormous returns. Coles and Mitchell provide the insights, examples and experience to help you find those leverage points - a compelling read."
David P. Norton - Author, The Balanced Scorecard
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is a delightful and worthwhile kick in the creative pants."
Sheldon Bowles - Coauthor, Raving Fans, Gung Ho!, High Five! and Big Bucks!
Want to expand your revenues by 20 times and cut costs by 96 percent? This book shows you how to do just that and grow profits and effectiveness by 400 times.
"Mitchell and Coles continue to offer readers creative examples and guidance for achieving performance breakthroughs. Their recommendations are supported by numerous examples of how companies and nonprofits leverage their scale for greater impact."
Robert S. Kaplan - Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution combines audacity and practicality into a one-of-a-kind guide for improving performance."
Daniel H. Pink - Author of A Whole New Mind
Since 1977, Mitchell and Coles have been helping leading companies pioneer the next generation of best practices.
"If you want greater profits and more efficiency, read this book. I found many breakthrough concepts for growing and streamlining all of our companies in this book. It made me aware of a lot of things we were not addressing and we are now."
Jack Canfield - Coauthor of The Success Principles(tm), and Co-creator, Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution provides proven strategies that really get you thinking about how to improve your business. Even more important, it gives you provocative stories that stick in your brain and then pop out at you the next day when you're least expecting it! All in all, a lot of food for thought."
Roger von Oech - Author of A Whack on the Side of the Head and Creative Whack Pack, and Inventor of the "Ball of Whacks"
The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is the first book to show you how to add 20 times more revenues at 96 percent less cost from the same time and effort. This book builds on the principles in the world-wide best seller, The 2,000 Percent Solution. Examples alternate between explaining how for-profit companies can grow profits by 400 times and showing how nonprofit organizations can serve 400 times as many beneficiaries.
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is a brilliant distillation of essential management principles that everyone, and I mean everyone, can use to drive dramatic acceleration of performance. It's packed with great stories that make the principles easy to understand, embrace, and apply. Whether you're a leader in a big, small, for-profit, or not-for-profit organization, you need this book." Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business School, best-selling author of How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End
We focus on helping you create two complementary 2,000 percent One to expand revenues or beneficiaries served by 20 times and the other to reduce costs of customers and beneficiaries by 96 percent while your organization puts forth the same time, effort, and resources.
The book employs two travel Growing the enterprise to 20 times its current size is likened to building a high-speed road; and reducing costs by 96 percent is compared to frugally driving rapidly over such a high-speed road.
Detailed examples spell out the most common challenges facing those who work in such organizations. In addition, you will find dozens of questions you can use to develop your complementary solutions.
"A 400 times increase in results! Is than an outrageous claim? Not if you know how. It's all about leverage - finding the point where small incremental efforts create enormous returns. Coles and Mitchell provide the insights, examples and experience to help you find those leverage points - a compelling read."
David P. Norton - Author, The Balanced Scorecard
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is a delightful and worthwhile kick in the creative pants."
Sheldon Bowles - Coauthor, Raving Fans, Gung Ho!, High Five! and Big Bucks!
Want to expand your revenues by 20 times and cut costs by 96 percent? This book shows you how to do just that and grow profits and effectiveness by 400 times.
"Mitchell and Coles continue to offer readers creative examples and guidance for achieving performance breakthroughs. Their recommendations are supported by numerous examples of how companies and nonprofits leverage their scale for greater impact."
Robert S. Kaplan - Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution combines audacity and practicality into a one-of-a-kind guide for improving performance."
Daniel H. Pink - Author of A Whole New Mind
Since 1977, Mitchell and Coles have been helping leading companies pioneer the next generation of best practices.
"If you want greater profits and more efficiency, read this book. I found many breakthrough concepts for growing and streamlining all of our companies in this book. It made me aware of a lot of things we were not addressing and we are now."
Jack Canfield - Coauthor of The Success Principles(tm), and Co-creator, Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul
"The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution provides proven strategies that really get you thinking about how to improve your business. Even more important, it gives you provocative stories that stick in your brain and then pop out at you the next day when you're least expecting it! All in all, a lot of food for thought."
Roger von Oech - Author of A Whack on the Side of the Head and Creative Whack Pack, and Inventor of the "Ball of Whacks"
316 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 7, 2007
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