A Simplistic Look at Lean
“If you look at the Toyota Production System simplistically, it’s about making problems and improvement opportunities visible to workers and management, and addressing them as close to the source as…
The Power of Visual Management Tools
"The Toyota Way recognizes that visual management complements humans because we are visually, tactilely, and audibly oriented. And the best visual indicators are right at the worksite, where they can…
Challenging and Fulfilling Work for Employees
"Lean production is a superior way for humans to make things. It provides better products in wider variety at lower cost. Equally, important, it provides more challenging and fulfilling work…
A Manager’s Most Important Responsibility
"At Toyota, OJD [On the Job Development] is arguably the most important responsibility of all managers and Toyota has developed a systematic approach. Toyota uses the term 'development' because it…
The Core of Toyota Culture
"One can even say that the core of Toyota culture is a practical approach to scientific thinking. If, in fact, improvement based on scientific thinking is what brings TPS to…
How Success usually comes…
"…success is not so much a function of intelligence or natural ability, but rather of commitment to the right disciplines." The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni…
Respect for People Includes Challenge to Grow
Genuine respect for people includes challenging them to excel and fulfill their potential.
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Developing People: The most important responsibility…
"At Toyota, OJD [On the Job Development] is arguably the most important responsibility of all managers and Toyota has developed a systematic approach. Toyota uses the term 'development' because it…
Lean Thinking…Superior Performance
"There is no doubt in our minds that, first, Lean thinking is a way of thinking that is radically different from mainstream management's thinking and, second, that it leads to…