Toyotomi Succession: Corporate Governance and Leadership Lessons
This episode reviews Saburo Kajiyama's business novel, "The Toyotomi Succession: A Novel of a Giant Automobile Company," which explores the complexities of corporate governance and leadership.
The book, the final installment in a trilogy, uses the fictional Toyotomi Motors (modeled after Toyota) to illustrate the challenges faced by large corporations during the pandemic, including a delayed shift to electric vehicles and issues related to succession.
The review highlights how the narrative exposes pitfalls such as hereditary leadership, internal power struggles, resistance to change due to…
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