Book description
- Spear’s reputation as a thought leader is recognized by elite media, publications, and conferences including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Bloomberg Business Radio, the Shingo Prize, and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence
- The pioneering insights in Chasing the Rabbit are based on original thinking in the tradition of Jim Collins, C.K. Prahalad, Clayton Christensen, and Michael Porter.
- Spear is one of the most astute business thinkers and prolific writers to emerge in the recent past; his Harvard Business Review articles are among its most popular reprints.
- Spear is a four-time Shingo Prize winner and a winner of the McKinsey Award
- Includes examples from global market leaders including Toyota, Vanguard, Southwest Airlines, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Alcoa
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Chasing the Rabbit
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 GETTING TO THE FRONT OF THE PACK
- CHAPTER 2 COMPLEXITY: THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD NEWS
- CHAPTER 3 HOW COMPLEX SYSTEMS FAIL
- CHAPTER 4 HOW COMPLEX SYSTEMS SUCCEED
- CHAPTER 5 HIGH VELOCITY UNDER THE SEA, IN THE AIR, AND ON THE WEB
- CHAPTER 6 CAPABILITY 1: SYSTEM DESIGN AND OPERATION
- CHAPTER 7 CAPABILITY 2: PROBLEM SOLVING AND IMPROVEMENT
- CHAPTER 8 CAPABILITY 3: KNOWLEDGE SHARING
- CHAPTER 9 CAPABILITY 4: DEVELOPING HIGH-VELOCITY SKILLS IN OTHERS
- CHAPTER 10 HIGH-VELOCITY CRISIS RECOVERY
- CHAPTER 11 CREATING HIGH-VELOCITY HEALTH-CARE ORGANIZATIONS
- CHAPTER 12 CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- NOTES
- INDEX
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win, Foreword by Clay Christensen
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2008
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071641517
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