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.

Toyota keeps costs ‘slim’

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PittsburghLIVE.comHere's an article that highlights some of Toyota's innovation and success, including a brief description of a "u-shaped cell" for a casting process, which...

‘Breaking the rice ceiling’

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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...

Toyota Makes Fortune’s "Most Admired" List

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Fortune: Most Admired Companies: SnapshotToyota is the first non-U.S. based company to make the list, in the #9 slot. The top 10 are...

Toyota Boosts Commitment to Ontario

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Article from Toronto's Globe & Mail - Toyota Revs up plans for Ontario plant: Toyota announced a 50% increase in planned production at it's...

Toyota Drives Into NASCAR

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Japanese Automaker Drives Into NASCAR - Yahoo! NewsWill they apply kaizen to NASCAR? :-)It was announced earlier this week that a NASCAR edition of...

Lean and Green in Texas

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Thomas L. Friedman (free access via Denver Post): Although the focus of this column is on the environmental advantages of the new Texas Instruments...

Toyota Leadership and Ford Leadership

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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...

U.S. has one rising carmaker: It’s Toyota

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Business - International Herald TribuneYou could argue that Nissan and Hyundai are also rising, particularly here in the U.S.Paragraph three, in this article,...

Lean at NUMMI

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Society of Manufacturing EngineersHere's a good overview of the Toyota/GM "Joint Venture" plant, NUMMI. I put "JV" in quotes because, sure there is...

Union ignorance of Toyota

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Toyota considers West Michigan plant; UAW not pleased -- WWMT - Digital Channel 3You'd think a new auto plant in Michigan, any plant, would...

As Japan’s Elderly Ranks Swell, Toyota Sees New Path to Growth

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Free version of articleWednesday's Wall St. Journal front page had quite a contrast. Next to an article about how GM is struggling, there...

NY Times, USA Today, and NPR Report on Toyota

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1 -- 'Slow and steady' drives Toyota's growth - (USA Today) 2 -- Toyota Closes In on G.M. (NY Times, requires free registration) 3 -- Toyota...
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