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It shows Toyota's detailed human value stream and demonstrates how to organize human resources to thrive. He claims it starts at values and with servant leadership, putting the president at the bottom of the pyramid and the suppliers - team members - customers at the top.
The presentation is archived now at the website. I'm just finishing the book with 5 friends where we talk about the main ideas and how they are relevant and what we can do - we review one chapter per week.
Mike Hoseus, author of Toyota Culture and the executive director for the Center for Quality People and Organizations just presented at [.]. The way that Toyota aligns company goals with employee goals for long term mutual prosperity makes the horizontal nature of the organizational structure a reality.Coming from a career working at Toyota in Kentucky, the author presents the ideas from the boot laces.
The author has a keen insight in viewing culture and breaks it down, at the lowest level to what we deeply believe in and act on. I characterize Toyota as designing their relationships with the detail that an engineer would bring.
If you and your team are already exposed to lean and have chosen this path, this is the book for you. For more information, watch the session with Mike Hoseus at [.].
It took me almost two months to get through the whole book, and the person who recommended it to me said it took him several weeks. I am sure many will disagree with me, but I think the book could have been three quarters the size and still have delivered the intended message.
I spent close to thirty years working as a manager for General Motors and Delphi. This book validated all the things I saw during my career that led me to conclude that General Motors and Delphi are focused on the wrong things.
This was my first purchase of a book in the Lyker series. I will just say, there are reasons why both companies I worked for ended up in bankruptcy, and this book describes in detail the things Toyota has done to remain successful in the automotive business.I really liked the contents of the book, but it was a tough, drawn out discussion.
Unfortunately, the Toyota Culture described in this book, cannot be implemented overnight. It takes time, patience and a commitment to more than just making a profit.
It is not the type of book you can sit down and read in a couple of evenings. If you buy this book, make sure you have the patience and perseverance to read the whole thing.
I've gathered quite a collection of Lean books. Having read about 30 books in the past year on Lean and related topics, Toyota Culture (and Toyota Talent) provided perhaps the most insight on the underlying foundation and drive for Lean Production. Other books will highlight the individual tools better, but this book is superb into providing the "whys" and "hows" of the entire system.
The initial apperance of the book was good. After opening the book to begin reading part of the binding broke loose. No pages have fallen out but this is the first negative experiance I have had dealing with any seller on Amazon.
And that is not gooing to be easy.Learning items are for example:- what is lean culture and what is the impact on business- how to hire/select/train people and what to train- people and organisation as work teams, team leader. This is again a Jeffrey Liker book (although probably mostly written by Michael Hoseus). But also visual management and the role of management - HR processes including Hoshin Kanriand so on.This book again cannot bring you anything unless- you have read The Toyota Way, The Toyota Way Fieldbook, Learning to see, Kaizen (Imai) and.- and most important, you have to be active in finding your own lean path in your organisation for at least a couple of years. And that means that you can learn, but also that you will suffer. Because you have to understand the 'living' meaning behind the words. If you only read this book in your chair within practical experience, it is all time lost.If you read it, because you are struggling within your organisation with very real issues, then this book will become alive. This is a book (as The Toyota Way is) that will be a good friend on your journey to Lean (but this friend will also ask attention and you will have to invest time for him).
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