Tag: Toyota

From Cost Cutting to Real Continuous Improvement: A Lesson from My...

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Thirty years ago, I was fresh out of college and working at General Motors. Yikes! 30 years! It was a time of reckoning--GM was finally...

Psychological Safety in Lean: What Toyota Gets Right–and Why It Matters

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One of the most powerful--but often overlooked--lessons from Toyota's management system isn't just about kanban, standard work, or andons. It's about people. More specifically,...

Mark Reich, Former Toyota Leader on Hoshin Kanri and ‘Managing on...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #528 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Mark Reich, a Senior...

Lean in Japan Works–But Not Because They’re Japanese

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Why Lean Thinking Succeeds in Japan--Not Because of Culture, But Because of Intentional Leadership and Systems One of the most persistent myths I've encountered over...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 2, 2025

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...

New Book: How Psychological Safety Drives Digital Transformation and the Toyota...

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Before I departed for my recent workshop tour of Australia and New Zealand, I knew that I would learn things in the process of...

Lean Coffee Talk #1 (Lean Whiskey #51): Starbucks, Honeywell, Tariffs, and...

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Listen: We would have called this Episode 51 of the Lean Whiskey podcast with Jamie Flinchbaugh and Mark Graban. Lean Whiskey is transitioning to a new...

Inside NUMMI: Isao Yoshino Reflects on Toyota’s Cultural Transformation in America

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A former Toyota leader shares firsthand insights on the mindset shifts and leadership systems that turned NUMMI from failure to global case study. The NUMMI...

Toyota Raku: Respect for People, Comfort, Ease, & Ergonomics

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I recently had the opportunity to tour the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky plant (TMMK) in Georgetown, Kentucky. It was my second visit to the...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 21, 2025

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...

The Best of Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape 2024

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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 13, 2024

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
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