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	<title>Chasing the Rabbit by Steven Spear</title>
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	<description>Chasing the Rabbit - Steven Spear's Official Blog. Steven Spear is The Author of Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win.</description>
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		<title>The Basic Science of High Velocity Systems: Principles for generating and sustaining improvement and innovation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question from a colleague:&#8221;If thermodynamics is the science of getting useful work out of engines, then surely organodynamics is the science of getting useful work out of organisations. Thermodynamics is based on three laws (or according to some purists, four): what three (or four!) laws of organodynamics would you
suggest?&#8221;
Answer: The objective function in managing any [...]


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		<title>If Toyota struggles with complex products, who else too?</title>
		<link>http://chasingtherabbitbook.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/2010/03/04/if-toyota-struggles-with-complex-products-who-else-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven_spear</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the several weeks that stories about Toyota have unfolded, we&#8217;ve reflected that if Toyota, the most aggressive learner and the technological leader in the auto industry, was struggling with the complexity of its products, then who else with what else?
Two articles in the Wall Street Journal suggest this may go from a Toyota issue [...]


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		<title>Spear on Toyota Culture: Bloomberg TV, Feb 24, 2010</title>
		<link>http://chasingtherabbitbook.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/2010/02/25/spear-on-toyota-culture-bloomberg-tv-feb-24-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven_spear</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one link to my interview last night following Akio Toyoda&#8217;s Congressional testimony.
Steve
MIT&#8217;s Spear Discusses Toyota&#8217;s Corporate Culture: Bloomberg TV Wednesday, February 24, 2010


Related posts:MIT News 3 Questions with Steve Spear: Toyota Troubles&#8211;Pace of business growth and product and process complexity overwhelm learning and people development capacityIf stress of expansion and technology leadership strains [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Made in Michigan&#8221; Sponsored by &#8216;The Michigan Experience</title>
		<link>http://chasingtherabbitbook.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/2010/02/24/made-in-michigan-sponsored-by-the-michigan-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://chasingtherabbitbook.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/2010/02/24/made-in-michigan-sponsored-by-the-michigan-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven_spear</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FIRST TRUE STATEWIDE CELEBRATION OF “MADE IN MICHIGAN” PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO TAKE PLACE IN OCTOBER
The Michigan Experience aims to boost Michigan economy by connecting thousands to high quality consumer products, foods and services from hundreds of Michigan companies
Farmington Hills, Mich. – The Made in Michigan Movement today announced plans for The Michigan Experience, Michigan’s [...]


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		<title>If stress of expansion and technology leadership strains Toyota, who else by how much?</title>
		<link>http://chasingtherabbitbook.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/2010/02/11/if-stress-of-expansion-and-technology-leadership-strains-toyota-who-else-by-how-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven_spear</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Through this series of recalls and production and sales suspensions, my main thoughts are:

Toyota has succeeded in converting itself from a crummy auto maker in the 1950s to the world leader on quality, productivity, and technology on the basis of its capacity for improvement and innovation.
This capacity depends on a long standing, historical commitment to [...]


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