100days - Bill Canady

The fourth and final step in the First 100 Days is launching an Action Plan, which defines the imperatives and tactics necessary to execute the strategy (Step 2) within the 80/20 segmented structure outlined in Step 3. Like the three steps that precede it, Step 4 aims at progress (not perfection) toward delivering on the goal set in Step 1. Every day of the First 100 Days is dedicated to making sound, informed decisions and taking actions based on them. Action, however imperfect, injects the company strategy into the real world, where it not only can begin the needed turnaround but where it is also tested against reality so that in can be continuously improved.

All four steps taken in the First 100 Days move toward creation of a Business Plan and an Action Plan. Step 3, Build the Structure, is the Business Plan, and in Step 4 we Launch the Action Plan to begin executing the strategy. Of course, the Business Plan at this point is in an early, partial iteration, subject to change as the plan is tested against the reality of the next three to five years.

Step 2: Create the Strategy Step 1 sets a goal. That gives you the what you will do. This, in turn, points to the needed strategy: how that goal will be reached. When turnaround is

You can turn your business around, positioning it to earn the right to grow, in four steps over 100 days. Step 1 is Set a goal.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States and took office in March 1933, he led an extraordinary three months-plus program of new legislation to turn Depression-plagued America around in his administration’s First 100 Days.

Your First 100 Days and What to do with them.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933, during the darkest and most desperate depths of the Great Depression, he revived a phrase that had been born on February 26, 1815, when Napoleon returned to France from his exile on the island of Elba. For the next hundred days, he led a stunning military campaign to regain his conquest and his throne. Napoleon singlehandedly rebuilt an army of 250,000 and very nearly succeeded in retaking his lost empire. Of course, it all ended badly for him a hundred days later at the Battle of Waterloo, on June 18, 1815, yet “The Hundred Days” became a phrase that has continued to echo down through history. FDR picked it up 118 years later and put it on himself.

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