Tag: Toyota

Toyota Thinking: Leadership, Systems, and Continuous Improvement

Toyota is often cited as the inspiration for Lean, but its success is rooted in leadership behaviors, management systems, and a deep commitment to learning—not tools or slogans. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on Toyota’s approach to quality, continuous improvement, psychological safety, and respect for people. Many of these posts explore what leaders outside Toyota often misunderstand—and what truly matters if they hope to learn from Toyota rather than copy it.

John Shook on A3 Reports in Sloan Management Review

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The Magazine » Toyota's Secret: The A3 Report « MIT Sloan Management Review John Shook had an article published in the latest SMR, based on...

Lean Guy Drove a Prius For Two Years And…

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... I wasn't impressed in the least. In my previous role as a consultant, I was given a company vehicle to use, even though...

Breaking: GM Dumps NUMMI Partnership with Toyota

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After 25 years, GM ditches NUMMI tie-up with Toyota In the news this afternoon: PRESS RELEASE: 2009-06-29 GM Media Statement Regarding GM's Ownership Stake in NUMMI Attributable to Troy...

Toyota Leaders Get a Lecture From a Toyoda

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Toyota Names Akio Toyoda President, Apologizes to Shareholders for Losses This was rumored for a while, but Toyota has formally named Akio Toyoda as the...

LIFE Magazine August 1980 – Auto Manufacturing

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I ended up having the chance to flip through a LIFE magazine from August 1980 and, given that was also a major recessionary period,...

NPR Does a Great Job of Covering Toyota

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Following The Toyota Way, For Better Or Worse : NPR (listen or read) I'll hand it to NPR, they generally do a much better job...

Matthew May on Elegance: Toyota’s Secret to Innovation

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In Episode #67 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, Mark Graban talks with Matthew E. May, former Toyota advisor and author of the Shingo...

NY Times Says Toyota To Get Leaner, Um, More Lean? Super...

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Toyota Is Tightening Its Belt - NYTimes.comThe words don't appear directly in the article, but the RSS blurb for this article (repeated in many...

Jim Womack on BBC World Business News

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BBC World Service - Business - 5/05/2009 - Car Crash The BBC aired a revisiting of a story from 2007, I found this thanks to...

Hey, Reuters, Six Sigma Did Not Start at Toyota!

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ANALYSIS - Six Sigma mystique takes beating in downturn | Motoring | Reuters Thanks to a former Toyota employee (and friend of mine) for sending...

Online WSJ Comment from Toyota Person

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Toyota Poised to Make Shift in North America - WSJ.com Interesting WSJ comment from this recent piece about planned management changes in North America. Jim Lentz,...

A Simple Toyota Root Cause Problem-Solving Example — From USA Today

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A USA Today article offered a small but telling example of how Toyota applies root cause problem solving and kaizen in everyday work. Even...
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