Describes the impressive strategic turnaround at General Motors beginning in the early 1990s that has brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy. Focuses on how other companies in a variety of industries can learn from GM's experience

Chaparral Steel : a model systems design -- Critical arguments : the Toulmin Argumentation Schema (TAS) -- Assumptions : Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST) -- A critical application : the U.S. Census Bureau -- Complex messy systems -- Synthesis : putting it all together --...