Tag: Respect for People

WSJ.com - Toyota May Delay New Models To Address Rising Quality Issues: I posted this article last week, but I looked at it again before...

Lean Blog: Companies Use Lean to Offset Cost Increases I posted last year about an Industry Week article about a company called Esselte. It sounded like...

Fortune: The new rules - Jul. 11, 2006Part of Fortune's cover story about how Jack Welch's "old rules" don't apply any more, this includes...

One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...

iPod City: Apple criticized for factory conditions There was a fairly shocking story in the Sunday Mail, a London newspaper, about the iPod factory conditions...

Dell: Facing Up To Past Mistakes I've written about this before and I think this article highlights some of the key differences between Toyota and...

Honda plans new Midwest auto plantMore on Honda. Interesting strategy here. Where most companies try to be cheap and hire the lowest-cost employees possible,...

Much has been written and talked about over the last two years about the "human side of lean" and the "respect for people" pillar...

CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character I bet there is a corollary, I'll propose it: "Blogger says how CEO's...

Battle Creek Enquirer - www.battlecreekenquirer.com Here is an outstanding profile of Gary Convis, the President of the Toyota Georgetown (KY) plant and the highest-ranking American...

Jim Press: 'I was in love with cars every second' Here is a bio of Toyota's North American Sales President, Jim Press. It's interesting to...

Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta Rei Here is a sad update on Merck's "lean" efforts (click the link above). I hate to...