Robert A. Neiman is a Harvard M.B.A. and a partner in the management consulting firm of Robert H. Schaffer & Associates. He and his colleagues have helped produce major gains in performance, profitability, and speed of response in leading companies such as Allied Signal, CNA Financial, General Electric, Hartford Financial, Motorola, PNC Financial, and many others. He has published many articles on execution methods and case studies of their successful application. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.