TL;DR — GM vs. Toyota After the Japan Earthquake General Motors (GM) Toyota Bottom line:This wasn’t a failure of JIT or Lean. It was a leadership choice. Toyota showed that real Lean is about how you treat people when work stops–not just how efficiently you run when it doesn’t. Here is a sad article with the headline“General Motors lays off workers at NY plant.” This is an addition to earlier Shreveport layoffs. The media will … Continue reading Why GM Blamed JIT for Layoffs After the Japan Earthquake — and Why Toyota Didn’t