Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

Introduction: Transforming Our Understanding of Leadership and Management

Imagine you have a way of managing that generates initiative among everyone in the organization to adapt, improve, and keep the organization moving forward. Imagine that although this method is different from how we currently manage, it is ultimately not difficult to understand. That is the subject of this book, which describes a way of bringing an organization to the top, and keeping it there, by influencing how everyone in it, yourself included, thinks, acts, and reacts.

In many organizations there is an unspoken frustration because of a gap between desired results and what really happens. Targets are set, but they are not reached. Change does not take place.

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