{"id":4106,"date":"2012-04-02T10:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:35:32","slug":"the-toyota-way-to-lean-leadership-jeffrey-k-liker-gary-l-convis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2012\/04\/02\/the-toyota-way-to-lean-leadership-jeffrey-k-liker-gary-l-convis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership. Jeffrey K. Liker &#038; Gary L. Convis."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 85px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan_f.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan_f.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Toyota trumpet-playing robot\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6f\/Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan_f.jpg\/300px-Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan_f.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota trumpet-playing robot\" width=\"75\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toyota trumpet-playing robot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Toyota_Way');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Toyota Way\" rel=\"wikipedia\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Toyota_Way\" target=\"_blank\">The Toyota Way<\/a> to Lean Leadership. Achieving and sustaining excellence through leadership development. Jeffrey K. Liker &amp; Gary L. Convis. 2012. ISBN 9780071780780.\u00a0 The two authors are very experienced in the Toyota Way and how it applies to American workers.\u00a0 The effectiveness of Toyota&#8217;s responses to whatever comes its way is amazing &#8211; and the profits show it..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My takeaways are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are no quick fixes<\/li>\n<li>Top leaders need to commit to continuous improvement ( their operations and themselves)<\/li>\n<li>Top leaders develop others &#8211; continuously teaching (discovery method)<\/li>\n<li>Commit to long term R&amp;D at the floor level.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders position teams to win<\/li>\n<li>The approach is contextually dependent &#8211; people, division, plant, country<\/li>\n<li>Metrics are used as a tool for self improvement &#8211; not a basis for rewards<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t go home until the problem is fixed.<\/li>\n<li>The company commits to leadership development<\/li>\n<li>The desire to want to be excellent is in us all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book is essential management reading.\u00a0 A must have on your shelf.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/leanexecution.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/15\/lean-leadership-the-missing-link\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/leanexecution.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/15\/lean-leadership-the-missing-link\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lean Leadership: The Missing Link?<\/a> (leanexecution.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/sylviemheroux.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/07\/learning-about-lean-in-action\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/sylviemheroux.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/07\/learning-about-lean-in-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learning about Lean in Action<\/a> (sylviemheroux.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/lenbrzozowski.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/01\/leadership-development-a-process-not-an-event\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/lenbrzozowski.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/01\/leadership-development-a-process-not-an-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leadership Development &#8211; a Process Not an Event<\/a> (lenbrzozowski.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/versalytics.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/25\/versalytics-on-lin\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/versalytics.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/25\/versalytics-on-lin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Versalytics &#8211; Lean Manufacturing Matters!<\/a> (versalytics.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=4be8a6a5-2a4d-493f-9e22-b3ddb10fa9b6\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two authors are very experienced in the Toyota Way and how it applies to American workers.  The effectiveness of Toyota&#8217;s responses to whatever comes its way is amazing &#8211; and the profits show it..    My takeaways are:<\/p>\n<p>    There are no quick fixes<br \/>\n    Top leaders need to commit to continuous improvement ( their operations and themselves)<br \/>\n    Top leaders develop others &#8211; continuously teaching (discovery method)<br \/>\n    Commit to long term R&#038;D at the floor level.<br \/>\n    Leaders position teams to win<br \/>\n    The approach is contextually dependent &#8211; people, division, plant, country<br \/>\n    Metrics are used as a tool for self improvement &#8211; not a basis for rewards<br \/>\n    You don&#8217;t go home until the problem is fixed.<br \/>\n    The company commits to leadership development<br \/>\n    The desire to want to be excellent is in us all.<\/p>\n<p>This book is essential management reading.  A must have on your shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[585,2762,1522,1521,2763,1451,1520,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}