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How the Toyota Board Rebuilt the Production System
In this episode of Boardroom Conversations, Lucas and Luna unpack how Toyota's board handled the 2009-2010 unintended acceleration crisis—a reputational near-death experience for the world's largest automaker. They focus on a single concrete decision: the board's creation of a North American Quality Advisory Panel, staffed entirely by outside experts, which bypassed Toyota's traditional consensus culture to force faster fixes. Lucas explains why the board's move to cede authority to an external body was radical for a Japanese keiretsu company, and how it reshaped…
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