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by Carol Bruckner Coles (Foreword by), Donald Mitchell (Author)
At God's direction in 1995, The 400 Year Project set out to accomplish two audacious goals: 1. Identify ways that the rate of all forms of human improvement could be accelerated by 20 times. 2. Demonstrate the most practical ways to accelerate improvements. Through following God's directions and receiving His help, these goals were greatly surpassed in 2015. Your Breakthroughs contains the key 400 Year Project lessons for individuals, companies, nonprofits, governments, and nations to create and enjoy improvements that would otherwise take more than 400 years to accomplish. By applying Your Breakthroughs, you can benefit yourself and others far beyond your fondest hopes. Your personal effectiveness will be greatly increased. The performance of your workplace, your church, your community, and your nation will become more than 20 times greater. If you choose to employ the most advanced methods described in this book, you will accomplish more than most productive people would in hundreds of lifetimes. Yet the time, effort, and resources needed to do so are modest. Only those who want to live frustrated by not accomplishing what they see is needed will avoid reading and applying this book.
Author Biography
In 1995, Mr. Mitchell founded the 400 Year Project, a global initiative to identify, create, and demonstrate how everyone on the Earth can make improvements 20 times faster than usual by September 2015 (see www.fastforward400.com). He has participated in or written nineteen books for the project. The most recent ones are Excellent Solutions, Excellent Leadership, the Advanced Business series, and Your Breakthroughs, which make mind-boggling improvements possible. The project has conducted successful demonstrations of these methods in over 60 countries. Since 2002, he has been developing improved management practices for entrepreneurs and small business leaders. Mr. Mitchell is coauthor of The 2000 Percent Solution: Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution, and The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook. He is the author of Adventures of an Optimist and Business Basics. He has also been quoted by Business Week, Chief Executive Magazine, Dun's Business Month, Financial World, Forbes, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Money, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News and United Press International regarding business strategy and investments. Mr. Mitchell is listed in many biographical references, including Who's Who in America. He has written more than 20 published articles on these subjects as well. Prior to founding Mitchell and Company, Mr. Mitchell was Director, Strategic Planning, for Heublein, Inc. Prior to his position at Heublein, he was a project manager at the Boston Consulting Group, Inc. Mr. Mitchell has an A.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. While studying for his J.D. degree, he attended Harvard Business School and pursued the field of marketing. He is a member of the bar in Massachusetts. Mr. Mitchell is a former treasurer of the Harvard Law School Association and is a former director of the Harvard Alumni Association.
