The Toyota Way | Jeffrey Liker | The difference between looking lean and BEING lean!

The Toyota Way | Jeffrey Liker | Excellent Overview of Toyota Principles

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The Toyota Way

	The Toyota Way Jeffrey Liker McGraw-Hill, 2003 - 350 pages average customer review:based on 84 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The difference between looking lean and BEING lean!

Toyota is the difference. A lot of people talk about lean this and lean that while bowing down to IT and accounting and brag about how lean allowed them to eliminate 'x headcount.' Toyota defines what it means to be lean. Their Toyota Way depends on two pillars: Continuous Improvement and Respect for People. A lot of companies who think they are lean neglect the second principle.

Toyota Way focuses on the managment principles that have evolved from the time of Toyoda Loom to make the company what it is today. It talks about the Toyota Production System as well. The book is well written and entertaining - but I am a dork and like reading these kinds of books for leisure anyways.

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Excellent Overview of Toyota Principles

I found this book to be very useful in describing the overall Toyota philosophy as well as the principles of Lean Manufacturing. If you desire to build a business based on continuous process improvement, superior customer value and long-term thinking, this book provides an excellent model for building your own corporate culture along a proven Toyota methodology. I ordered additional copies for all of our Sr Mgmt...excellent book...highly recommended.

Not easy to read, but neither is the Bible

I enjoyed this book and learned a lot from it. The book is not a fun vacation poolside read, but it is not a totally boring academic text either. If you work in a large-scale manufacturing facility, or if you are just curious about best practices in business, The Toyota Way is like gospel. This book covers all of the hip Japanese shop floor slang, such as muda, genchi genbutsu and nemawashi. There are informative diagrams, thorough explanations and good business anecdotes throughout the book.

You might also like the book 'All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage' by William B. Miller, which is an elegantly simple read about the fundamentals of The Toyota Way.

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Good Summary of Toyota Culture

This book brings it all together under 14 principles. It is a good book for those who would like to learn about Toyota's success.

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