Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno: What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System

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Many times managers ask, “How can we sustain Lean?” This book points out the need to adopt a management mindset throughout the organization, starting with management. It provides anecdotes and practical steps to ensure that both the mindset and the purpose behind well-known techniques associated with the Toyota Production System (TPS) are understood and considered during implementation.

A number of books have been written about Ohno. Anecdotes such as being told to stand in one spot, fast changeovers, and the like are plentiful. His style of management could be considered dictatorial and bombastic, but beyond the ...