ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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With discovery as a theme of Chasing the Rabbit, it is appropriate that I thank those who invested so heavily in the discoveries reported in this book. First is Professor H. Kent Bowen of Harvard Business School and of MIT before that. Kent opened the door for me to pursue graduate studies at the doctoral level, and his involvement in what I was doing went far beyond what anyone could expect or deserve on the strength of his or her own merits alone.

Hajime Ohba of Toyota has also been my teacher since I began this research. Toyota is one of the most intensively studied organizations in this era, with thousands of academic researchers, journalists, and practitioners ...

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