Toyota doesn't just produce cars; it produces talented people. In the international bestseller, The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker explained Toyota's remarkable success through a 4P model for excellence-Philosophy, People, Problem Solving, and Process. Liker, with coauthor David Meier, provided deeper insight into the practical application of the principles in The Toyota Way Fieldbook. Now, these authorities on Toyota reveal how you can develop talented people and achieve incredible results in your company. Toyota Talent walks you through the rigorous methodology used by this global powerhouse to grow high-performing individuals from within. Beginning with a review of Toyota's landmark approach to developing people, the authors illustrate the critical importance of creating a learning and teaching culture in your organization. They provide specific examples necessary to train employees in all areas-from the shop floor to engineering to staff members in service organizations-and show you how to support and encourage every individual to reach his or her top potential. Toyota Talent provides you with the inside knowledge you need to <ul>
<li>Identify your development needs and create a training plan </li>
<li>Understand the various types of work and how to break complicated jobs into teachable skills </li>
<li>Set behavioral expectations by properly preparing your workplace </li>
<li>Recognize and develop potential trainers within your workforce </li>
<li>Effectively educate nonmanufacturing employees and members of the staff </li>
<li>Develop internal Lean Manufacturing experts </li>
</ul>
Guiding you with expert tips and training aids, as well as real-world examples drawn from the authors' two decades of research and field work, Liker and Meier show you how to get the most out of people who live and breathe your company's philosophy-and who work together toward a common goal.

Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way

Business & Money

Meier, David

Liker, Jeffrey K.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development

Convis, Gary L.

Industries

Giving Wings to Her Team

Denise dreamed of being the kind of leader who empowered and engaged her people, but was becoming frustrated and disillusioned. 
Denise -- a fast-rising, young consultant at a large advisory firm -- lands a job as a manager in industry. Crisis strikes as low-cost competitors take market share and general chaos generates late shipments. Denise goes into Lean consulting mode but quickly learns her supervisors are not buying it. They're not engaged, and they find the Lean tools confusing and a distraction from their goals of getting product out. It's going to take some magic -- magic that's available to you, the reader, too! 
Come with Denise on a journey of discovery and skill development, as she moves beyond the tools and concepts of Lean and focuses on daily practice that helps her supervisors achieve their goals. It's about an approach called Toyota Kata that helps anyone develop and apply scientific thinking -- an exploratory mindset of curiosity and experimentation. A mentor from an unlikely place appears and shares with Denise how to coach her team. Once her supervisors dig into real problems they face every day, they begin to engage. Step by step, with insightful inputs from her mentor, Denise starts developing the skills to become a coaching manager. She watches her team meet their current challenges and be ready for more. 
When you teach and practice scientific thinking and coaching skills you give wings to your team, and new worlds of opportunity open up. If you're a manager you'll identify with how the team in this story goes beyond general preaching about best practices, to practicing how to get to where they want to be. If you're a Lean practitioner frustrated with applying tools with a limited half life, you'll learn how to develop people so they can achieve their most important goals and keep going. And if you're already a Toyota Kata practitioner, well ... you will love this book!

Schwarz, Tilo

Business Culture

Productivity Press

Having a team that knows how to adapt and innovate quickly can make all the difference in these challenging and competitive times -- for your organization and you personally as a leader. Leaders as coaches are crucial for a true learning organization, and high-performance teams need and want their leader to coach -- not tell. But not just any kind of coaching! Coaching that is enabling and inspiring because it increases adaptiveness and creativity -- with each individual and the whole team -- so they achieve important goals together. That's what the Coaching Kata helps leaders to learn. Take a fresh look at this five-phase, dual-purpose coaching model, become the leader you always wanted to be, and your team needs you to be. This business novel will transform the way you see and lead your team.

2016 winner of the SHINGO RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION AWARD, Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels: A Practical Guide is a management Must Read. The Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) presented in this book is intuitive, and aligns well with accepted principles of operational excellence. It expands significantly on the elements of Lean, structuring them in a more specific way that can be operationalized by lean practitioners. You can learn everything you want about the Toyota Way; you can implement the tools they have created, but if you do not have the behaviors established within your culture, it will not be successful for long-term sustainment of operational excellence. Leadership must walk the talk of true north in every aspect of the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) as conveyed in detail by Dr. Liker in this recent Shingo Award Winning Book. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, for the first time, Jeffrey Liker and Toyota-Veteran Gary Convis unveiled the secret of Toyota’s success in developing leaders who live the values and constantly improve the company and adapt to the rapidly changing environment. There is a core set of skills required of all Toyota leaders focused on the right way to improve delivery of value to customers in whatever part of the company they are stationed (sales, supply chain, human resources, operations, R&amp;D, finance). This process is sometimes confused with the results of that process which are the artifacts you see when touring a Toyota plant. The reality of any Toyota operation is that it houses a culture of people deliberately taught a method of defining, analyzing, and solving problems to continually drive the company forward. Toyota summarizes this as respect for people and continuous improvement, but the way to achieve this is through exceptional leadership developed not over weeks and months but over years and decades. In Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels we build on the theory in the original book and answer the questions: How can I apply this in my organization? What concrete actions can I take to begin the journey of becoming a lean leader? How can I spread this learning to all parts of the organization? What critical tools are needed to turn the theory to practice? This book adds examples from over twenty years of experience by Dr. Liker in working with companies outside of Toyota. The book treats you as a student who will be actively engaged in developing lean leader skills as you read. It acts as a tutorial for beginning the journey! We build on the original four-stage model of leadership development by Liker and Convis: self development, developing others, supporting daily improvement and aligning people throughout the entire enterprise using a common strategic planning process called hoshin kanri. These steps are guided by five core Toyota Way values: challenge, kaizen, go and see first hand, respect, and teamwork. The method for training is one part concepts in a classroom and many, many parts on the job development with an experienced mentor. Lean leaders are the executives and managers of the operation, not outside improvement specialists. Every leader becomes a teacher developing others. We began with an online course broadly accessible to large numbers of people. The challenge was to make a course that is engaging, feeds information in bite-sized pieces, tests understanding of the bite-sized pieces, and relates conceptual learning to practice through actual improvement projects with a coach. This book arose out of the online course. First, Dr. Liker and George Trachilis developed the course with a lot of piloting and improvement. Second, the course was translated verbatim into this book. Third, Dr. Liker rewrote the book to enhance it and improve the flow. The goal in writing the book is to help you learn, practice, and grow your lean leadership skills. Jeffrey K. Liker University of Michigan Author, The Toyota Way

Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide (Korean) (Korean Edition)

Lean Leadership Institute Publications

2016 winner of the SHINGO RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION AWARD, Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels: A Practical Guide is a management Must Read. The Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) presented in this book is intuitive and aligns well with accepted principles of operational excellence. It expands significantly on the elements of Lean, structuring them in a more specific way that can be operationalized by lean practitioners. You can learn everything you want about the Toyota Way; you can implement the tools they have created, but if you do not have the behaviors established within your culture, it will not be successful for long-term sustainment of operational excellence. Leadership must walk the talk of true north in every aspect of the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) as conveyed in detail by Dr. Liker in this recent Shingo Award Winning Book. In Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels, we build on the theory in the original book, The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, and answer the questions: How can I apply this in my organization? What concrete actions can I take to begin the journey of becoming a lean leader? How can I spread this learning to all parts of the organization? What critical tools are needed to turn the theory to practice? This book adds examples from over twenty years of experience by Dr. Liker in working with companies outside of Toyota. The book treats you as a student who will be actively engaged in developing lean leader skills as you read. It acts as a tutorial for beginning the journey.

Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide (Chinese Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Leading Change Through Problem Solving at Northeast Georgia Health System was created to send a consistent message to NGHS’s 7,000 employees on their Quest for Excellence. It is no surprise that they discovered that Lean Leadership is much more than implementing tools. It is a mindset that is developed through practicing deliberate problem solving, with a coach. The Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) presented in this book is intuitive and aligns well with accepted principles of operational excellence. It expands significantly on the elements of Lean, structuring them in a more specific way that can be operationalized by lean practitioners. You can learn everything you want about the Toyota Way; you can implement the tools they have created, but if you do not have the behaviors established within your culture, it will not be successful for long-term sustainment of operational excellence. This Shingo Award Winning book can be referred to as the fieldbook for The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership. It answers the questions: How can I apply this in my organization? What concrete actions can I take to begin the journey of becoming a lean leader? How can I spread this learning to all parts of the organization? What critical tools are needed to turn the theory to practice? The book treats you as a student who will be actively engaged in developing lean leader skills as you read. It acts as a tutorial for beginning the journey.

Leading Change Through Problem Solving at Northeast Georgia Health System

Engaging the Team at Zingerman’s Mail Order: A Toyota Kata Comic

Root, Tom

Lander, Eduardo

Lean in a High-Variability Business: A Graphic Novel about Lean and People at Zingerman’s Mail Order

Product Description 
"John Dewey famously pointed out, 'We don't learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.' Here's your chance to learn as the three authors reflect on the (successful) struggle to build a Lean production and management system at Zingerman's Mail Order. Thousands of people visit and benchmark ZMO. This book delivers the backstory in a richly illustrated way." 
-- Mike Rother, author of the bestselling books Toyota Kata and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide 
This clever and highly engaging graphic novel details a story about one organization’s Lean journey with inspiration from the Toyota Way. 
Over the years, common misunderstandings about what Lean is, what the journey is like, and how to advance have proliferated. Often, these misunderstandings come from the way people simplistically talk and think about Lean as if it is some concrete thing that you insert into an organization and step back to watch the results. 
The authors, however, view the organization as a living system with interacting parts and constant exposure to the environment. It is dynamic, so it’s hard to predict what obstacles you will face next. Just when you think you have it solved, new challenges arise from the market, competitors, government regulations, and every direction you turn to. When you look at your organization in this way, you see Lean through a different lens. The goal is to make your processes and people into a more adaptive system so you can navigate through all the complexity and uncertainty to continually achieve your goals. This is how Toyota views things and they summarize the Toyota Way as continuous improvement and respect for people. Each person becomes a partner in struggling to learn and adapt, and specific tools are used in very different ways throughout the company to accomplish their goals. 
The story presented here focuses on a small company called Zingerman’s Mail Order (ZMO). Tom Root was one of the founders of this spin-off of the Zingerman’s delicatessen. The deli was founded to bring high-quality artisanal food to Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
The purpose of this book is not to provide a "recipe for implementation" – the authors want you to get a feeling for the struggle, for the learning process. They explain and demonstrate many Lean tools within the context of the journey and how they were adapted for this particular business. Toyota kata became the centerpiece of developing scientific thinking skills to begin to bring continuous improvement to life. 
 Review 
John Dewey famously pointed out, "We don't learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience." Here's your chance to learn as the three authors reflect on the (successful) struggle to build a Lean production and management system at Zingerman's Mail Order. Thousands of people visit and benchmark ZMO. This book delivers the backstory in a richly illustrated way. \n-- Mike Rother, author of the bestselling books Toyota Kata and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide\n"Excelsior!" as Stan Lee would've said. A fantastic introduction and fun book to read with your team to really get into lean thinking and learn by doing. Don't miss it!\n-- Michael Ballé, author of The Goldmine trilogy and other Lean works\nAn amazing story is told of a local community business striving to transform using lean principles. The comic book format provides vivid images and powerful personal stories of the failures and successes of a lean transformation in a low volume, high complexity environment. For those on their lean journey, this is a must read!\n-- Jeff Rivera, Chief Operating Officer, Lineage Logistics\nThis is the story of a receptive servant leadership team, reaching out to lean coaches devoted to teaching, willing to do something different. They defined the direction through a set of challenges pursued with patience and passion. The graphic novel format allows us to feel the daily struggles as they overcame obstacles by developing and enga

Root, Thomas E.

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Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way

The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development

Giving Wings to Her Team

Giving Wings to Her Team

Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide (Korean) (Korean Edition)

Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide (Chinese Edition)

Leading Change Through Problem Solving at Northeast Georgia Health System

Engaging the Team at Zingerman’s Mail Order: A Toyota Kata Comic

Engaging the Team at Zingerman’s Mail Order: A Toyota Kata Comic

Lean in a High-Variability Business: A Graphic Novel about Lean and People at Zingerman’s Mail Order