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What Toyota’s 1992 Booklet Leaves Out About Leadership
The 1992 Toyota booklet says surprisingly little about leadership. There's a Kiichiro Toyoda quote about engineers getting their hands dirty. There's a brief sentence about executives visiting the workplace and acting on what they see. That's about it. For a forty-page document about a production system the world spent the next thirty years trying to copy, that's a remarkably thin treatment of the people running the place. Continuing the thread from earlier posts on Toyota's […] The post What Toyota’s 1992 Booklet Leaves Out About Leadership by Mark Graban appeared first at Lean…
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