Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win - Hardcover

Spear, Steven J.

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ISBN 10: 0071499881 ISBN 13: 9780071499880

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008

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Organizational rabbits hold the key to the new competitive advantage

In Chasing the Rabbit, four-time Shingo Prize winner, noted author, and celebrated MITlecturer Steven Spear shares his insights on what lies at the core of superlative performanceand competitive dominance. Market leaders, or rabbits, outrun and escape thepack by constantly raising the bar through self-improvement and innovation that occursat rates faster, durations longer, and breadths wider than anyone else can muster.

The culmination of over a decade of research, study, and consulting with companies infinance, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology, Chasing the Rabbit introduces a newapproach to achieving competitive advantage. Spear demonstrates how the world'sgreatest companies manage complex processes by eliminating obstacles to operationalexcellence and making problem-solving a core organizational capability.

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Steven J. Spear is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and aSenior Fellow at the Institute forHealthcare Improvement. Formerlyan assistant professor at HarvardBusiness School, he is also a frequentcontributor to the HarvardBusiness Review.

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Sprint to the lead in your industry--and stay there!

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"Chasing the Rabbit contains ideas that form the basis for structured continuous learning and improvement in every aspect of our lives. While this book is tailored to business leaders, it should be read by high school seniors, college students, and those already in the workforce. With the broad societal application of these ideas, we can achieve levels of accomplishment not even imagined by most people."
.The Honorable Paul H. O'Neill
.Former CEO and Chairman, Alcoa
.Former Secretary of the Treasury

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"Some firms outperform competitors in many ways at once--cost, speed, innovation, service. How? Steve Spear opened my eyes to the secret of systemizing innovation: taking it from the occasional, unpredictable 'stroke of genius' to something you and your people do month-in, month-out to outdistance rivals."
.Scott D. Cook
.Founder And Chairman of the Executive Committee
.Intuit, Inc.

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"Steven Spear connects a deep study of systems with practical management insights and does it better than any organizational scholar I know. Chasing the Rabbit is a profoundly important book that will challenge and inspire executives in all industries to think more clearly about the technical and social foundations of organizational excellence."
.Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
.President and CEO
.Institute for Healthcare Improvement

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071499881
• ISBN 13: 9780071499880
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 404
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: McGraw-Hill Education; https://www.mheducation.co.in/; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien