The Root Cause: Rethink Your Approach to Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the following people for granting their permission to quote from their copyrighted material:

•   Mary Ellen Boyd, executrix of the John R. Boyd estate, for permission to quote from her father’s presentations

•   The Joseph Campbell Foundation (jsf.org) for the use of quotations from Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces

•   Robert Coram for the use of his description of Colonel John R. Boyd’s so-called “To Be or to Do” speech from his book Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

•   Professor Michael Porter for the use of the Value Chain Model as presented in his book Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

•   Messrs. ...