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.

How Curiosity Empowers Toyota

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Business Week ArticleHere is a new article from Business Week, which also focuses on the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from...

Copying Toyota’s Past Practices or Toyota’s Thinking?

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With our Lean efforts, it's always good to ask, are we:Copying Toyota's past methods,Copying Toyota's current methods ORCopying Toyota's thought process and conceptsIf you're...

The Patriots are like Toyota?

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Unbeaten Patriots see room for improvement - NFL - Yahoo! SportsThe above headline blew me away this morning. The Patriots have basically been...

Free Peeks into Taiichi Ohno’s Book

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I think I've mentioned this resource before, the free content that is online in Google Books. Even though I own Taiichi Ohno's book...

Upcoming Book: How Toyota Became #1

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I was just contacted this morning by David Magee, the author of the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World's...

LeanBlog Podcast #31 — David Meier on ‘Toyota Talent,’ Standardization, and...

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Listen: LeanBlog Podcast #31 is a discussion with David Meier, most recently the co-author of the book Toyota Talent, written with Dr. Jeffrey Liker. In this...

Updated: Press leaving Toyota for Chrysler

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Autoblog.com reportThis is surprising -- Toyota's top U.S. executive, Jim Press, who had been the first American named as a Toyota corporate director, is...

What About The Other Car Makers?

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by Dan MarkovitzThis blog has commented (here and here) on the WSJ's rush to predict the folly of just-in-time manufacturing in the wake...

The JIT Sky Didn’t Fall

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Forbes.com - Partial Production to Start TuesdayReuters Article - Toyota to Resume Full Production WednesdayWhat do the Chicken Littles at the WSJ have to...

Updated: Step 1 Earthquake, Step 2 JIT Bashing

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A Key Strategy of Japan's Car Makers Backfires - WSJ.com Be sure to read the comments for an excellent story from Matthew May about the...

Updated: Quake forces Toyota to halt production

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Yahoo! NewsUpdated: No real updates in the news, maybe we'll learn more in the morning... but a few more thoughts of mine added...

Does a UK Hospital "Have Boondoggle?"

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Fury Over 84 000 pound NHS Trip To Japan (from The Northern Echo)With apologies to the Got Boondoggle? lean blog, this story is about...
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