Perhaps a book on the third or fourth year of a successful reform would teach us something about how initial gains can be maintained. (educationnext.org)
Thankfully, learning begins to accelerate once we've made careful initial gains. (malenademartini.com)
But both businesses were frustrated with their current rates of improvement — they seemed to have made some solid initial gains from Lean but the rate of progress had slowed. (agileattorney.com)