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Stable and paranoid,

systematic and The Contradictions
That Drive Toyota’s
experimental, formal and
frank: The success of Toyota,
a pathbreaking six-year
study reveals, is due as much
to its ability to embrace
Success
contradictions like these as
to its manufacturing
prowess.

by Hirotaka Takeuchi, Emi Osono, and

Norihiko Shimizu
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