Author: Takao Sakai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980603870
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Toyo Keizai Business Book Japan #1 best seller"Shusa" is the president of his product and the corporate president takes the role of helping all the Shusas" -- Eiji ToyodaThe Secret Behind the Success of Toyota: How the Original Chief Engineer System Works to Generate Most of the Product Value and Profit" is the first book ever written about genuine Toyota Product Development System based on the "Shusa" system (currently referred the Chief Engineer system) which dates back to 1953. The substance of the book is based on extensive research and interviews with former Toyota executives from the Product Engineering Division and Information System Division, who took charge of different elements of vehicles such as the chassis, power train, electrical & electric, etc., as well as the author's profound experience in management consultancy. Whilst the dominant public wrongly considers the Toyota production System (TPS) as the source of the competitive edge, today Toyota generates more than 95% of the product value and profit as its product development stage. This book describes, for the first time ever, the TPD as essential functions of the company as the heart and brain of the human organism. It also sheds light on the combination of TPD and TPS, i.e., total Toyota management system.-- From Preface to the Japanese versionCompanies once used to be model of "Japan, Inc." have lost their power in global market in 2 decades.Then why, among them, is it that only Toyota, global company and its group keiretsu companies are still so strong in the world tough competition still today? What is its secret in generating such revenue and profit? If we ask this question, many would answer it is the Toyota Production System (TPS) of Kanban, and Kaizen, or its strong sales force. As a matter of fact, these replies, however, are now of course wrong, or I can say, they are complete mistakes today. Concept and techniques of TPS are quite common these days in the world as well as in Japan. Combination of TPS and Gemba QC style of management is called "Lean" outside of Japan and research and it has already been in practice more than 20 years. Some time has passed now since the US and other countries started to watch the "secret of the strength of Toyota" with the conception that bringing that system into their own operations is one of the most important factor in winning the global market. However, you may notice that no manufacturing companies who studied and applied Toyota way or "Lean" has not achieved the same high level result as Toyota yet. This book aims to clarify the total system of how Toyota, "the largest global corporation in Japan that even most Japanese hardly know about," plans, designs, manufactures, and sells products that meet the world-wide customers' needs.
The Secret Behind the Success of Toyota
Author: Takao Sakai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980603870
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Toyo Keizai Business Book Japan #1 best seller"Shusa" is the president of his product and the corporate president takes the role of helping all the Shusas" -- Eiji ToyodaThe Secret Behind the Success of Toyota: How the Original Chief Engineer System Works to Generate Most of the Product Value and Profit" is the first book ever written about genuine Toyota Product Development System based on the "Shusa" system (currently referred the Chief Engineer system) which dates back to 1953. The substance of the book is based on extensive research and interviews with former Toyota executives from the Product Engineering Division and Information System Division, who took charge of different elements of vehicles such as the chassis, power train, electrical & electric, etc., as well as the author's profound experience in management consultancy. Whilst the dominant public wrongly considers the Toyota production System (TPS) as the source of the competitive edge, today Toyota generates more than 95% of the product value and profit as its product development stage. This book describes, for the first time ever, the TPD as essential functions of the company as the heart and brain of the human organism. It also sheds light on the combination of TPD and TPS, i.e., total Toyota management system.-- From Preface to the Japanese versionCompanies once used to be model of "Japan, Inc." have lost their power in global market in 2 decades.Then why, among them, is it that only Toyota, global company and its group keiretsu companies are still so strong in the world tough competition still today? What is its secret in generating such revenue and profit? If we ask this question, many would answer it is the Toyota Production System (TPS) of Kanban, and Kaizen, or its strong sales force. As a matter of fact, these replies, however, are now of course wrong, or I can say, they are complete mistakes today. Concept and techniques of TPS are quite common these days in the world as well as in Japan. Combination of TPS and Gemba QC style of management is called "Lean" outside of Japan and research and it has already been in practice more than 20 years. Some time has passed now since the US and other countries started to watch the "secret of the strength of Toyota" with the conception that bringing that system into their own operations is one of the most important factor in winning the global market. However, you may notice that no manufacturing companies who studied and applied Toyota way or "Lean" has not achieved the same high level result as Toyota yet. This book aims to clarify the total system of how Toyota, "the largest global corporation in Japan that even most Japanese hardly know about," plans, designs, manufactures, and sells products that meet the world-wide customers' needs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980603870
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Toyo Keizai Business Book Japan #1 best seller"Shusa" is the president of his product and the corporate president takes the role of helping all the Shusas" -- Eiji ToyodaThe Secret Behind the Success of Toyota: How the Original Chief Engineer System Works to Generate Most of the Product Value and Profit" is the first book ever written about genuine Toyota Product Development System based on the "Shusa" system (currently referred the Chief Engineer system) which dates back to 1953. The substance of the book is based on extensive research and interviews with former Toyota executives from the Product Engineering Division and Information System Division, who took charge of different elements of vehicles such as the chassis, power train, electrical & electric, etc., as well as the author's profound experience in management consultancy. Whilst the dominant public wrongly considers the Toyota production System (TPS) as the source of the competitive edge, today Toyota generates more than 95% of the product value and profit as its product development stage. This book describes, for the first time ever, the TPD as essential functions of the company as the heart and brain of the human organism. It also sheds light on the combination of TPD and TPS, i.e., total Toyota management system.-- From Preface to the Japanese versionCompanies once used to be model of "Japan, Inc." have lost their power in global market in 2 decades.Then why, among them, is it that only Toyota, global company and its group keiretsu companies are still so strong in the world tough competition still today? What is its secret in generating such revenue and profit? If we ask this question, many would answer it is the Toyota Production System (TPS) of Kanban, and Kaizen, or its strong sales force. As a matter of fact, these replies, however, are now of course wrong, or I can say, they are complete mistakes today. Concept and techniques of TPS are quite common these days in the world as well as in Japan. Combination of TPS and Gemba QC style of management is called "Lean" outside of Japan and research and it has already been in practice more than 20 years. Some time has passed now since the US and other countries started to watch the "secret of the strength of Toyota" with the conception that bringing that system into their own operations is one of the most important factor in winning the global market. However, you may notice that no manufacturing companies who studied and applied Toyota way or "Lean" has not achieved the same high level result as Toyota yet. This book aims to clarify the total system of how Toyota, "the largest global corporation in Japan that even most Japanese hardly know about," plans, designs, manufactures, and sells products that meet the world-wide customers' needs.
Extreme Toyota
Author: Emi Osono
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470267623
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470267623
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired.
Toyota Kaizen Methods
Author: Isao Kato
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439838542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Toyota Kaizen Methods: Six Steps to Improvement focuses on the skills and techniques practiced inside Toyota Motor Corporation during the past decades. This workbook focuses on the actual training course concepts and methods used by Toyota to develop employee skill level, a core element of Toyota‘s success. It is not a book about holding Western-st
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439838542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Toyota Kaizen Methods: Six Steps to Improvement focuses on the skills and techniques practiced inside Toyota Motor Corporation during the past decades. This workbook focuses on the actual training course concepts and methods used by Toyota to develop employee skill level, a core element of Toyota‘s success. It is not a book about holding Western-st
The Toyota Engagement Equation: How to Understand and Implement Continuous Improvement Thinking in Any Organization
Author: Tracey Richardson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1259837432
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The formula for Lean success! Toyota veterans reveal how to build continuous improvement into your company’s DNA Ever since Toyota introduced the revolutionary Toyota Production System (TPS), businesses have tried to replicate Toyota’s success. Few have succeeded over the long term. What businesses have failed to realize is that TPS calls for a fundamentally different way of thinking. Now, at long last, here is a straightforward guide that make sense of the thinking culture behind Toyota’s phenomenal success. In its pages, authors Tracey and Ernie Richardson speak from the heart as Toyota employees who worked in the Kentucky factory when the company was first introducing its people-first approach in the U.S., and went on in the ensuing decades to teach Lean thinking around the world. In The Toyota Engagement Equation, the authors take you through Toyota’s own journey of discovery. This deep dive into the company’s game-changing work practices reveals how employees were developed, how they were taught to spot and define problems through standardization, how they were coached to solve them, and how they were encouraged to improve their thinking as they moved forward. And you’ll see how Toyota developed this simple but profoundly effective approach into an overall management system—and how you can achieve amazing results in your company through the same system. In the world of Lean design and implementation handbooks, The Toyota Engagement Equation stands out as a fresh, unique, and authoritative guide to building your business into the Toyota of your industry. As the authors see it, TPS has now evolved to the “Thinking People System!”
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1259837432
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The formula for Lean success! Toyota veterans reveal how to build continuous improvement into your company’s DNA Ever since Toyota introduced the revolutionary Toyota Production System (TPS), businesses have tried to replicate Toyota’s success. Few have succeeded over the long term. What businesses have failed to realize is that TPS calls for a fundamentally different way of thinking. Now, at long last, here is a straightforward guide that make sense of the thinking culture behind Toyota’s phenomenal success. In its pages, authors Tracey and Ernie Richardson speak from the heart as Toyota employees who worked in the Kentucky factory when the company was first introducing its people-first approach in the U.S., and went on in the ensuing decades to teach Lean thinking around the world. In The Toyota Engagement Equation, the authors take you through Toyota’s own journey of discovery. This deep dive into the company’s game-changing work practices reveals how employees were developed, how they were taught to spot and define problems through standardization, how they were coached to solve them, and how they were encouraged to improve their thinking as they moved forward. And you’ll see how Toyota developed this simple but profoundly effective approach into an overall management system—and how you can achieve amazing results in your company through the same system. In the world of Lean design and implementation handbooks, The Toyota Engagement Equation stands out as a fresh, unique, and authoritative guide to building your business into the Toyota of your industry. As the authors see it, TPS has now evolved to the “Thinking People System!”
Toyota’s Global Marketing Strategy
Author: Shozo Hibino
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351671553
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
There are many books on the market that discuss the Toyota Production System but few that insightfully analyze its marketing strategy. Authored by former Toyota marketing executives, this is the first book of its kind to detail how Toyota’s thinking habits go beyond the shop floor and influence and guide Toyota’s marketing function. Toyota has expanded from a venture enterprise to one of the biggest global enterprises because of its innovative mindset (Toyota thinking habits) using Breakthrough Thinking, which supports a new philosophical approach to problem solving, turning 180 degrees away from conventional thinking. Written by Toyota’s former executive managing director and founder of Breakthrough Thinking, Toyota’s Global Marketing Strategy: Innovation through Breakthrough Thinking and Kaizen: Explores Toyota’s "Breakthrough Thinking" Examines how Toyota conducts information gathering. Illustrates how Toyota builds and maintains its unique business culture Shows how Toyota "goes to the customer" and comprehensively studies how customers use their products Reveals Toyota’s cars have become some of the biggest selling models in the USA The authors of this book explore Toyota thinking habits as well as Toyota’s global marketing strategy, which, since the 1980sa, has been expanding exponentially. The reader will understand the importance of thinking habits in the workplace and will know how to apply them using Toyota as the prime case study.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351671553
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
There are many books on the market that discuss the Toyota Production System but few that insightfully analyze its marketing strategy. Authored by former Toyota marketing executives, this is the first book of its kind to detail how Toyota’s thinking habits go beyond the shop floor and influence and guide Toyota’s marketing function. Toyota has expanded from a venture enterprise to one of the biggest global enterprises because of its innovative mindset (Toyota thinking habits) using Breakthrough Thinking, which supports a new philosophical approach to problem solving, turning 180 degrees away from conventional thinking. Written by Toyota’s former executive managing director and founder of Breakthrough Thinking, Toyota’s Global Marketing Strategy: Innovation through Breakthrough Thinking and Kaizen: Explores Toyota’s "Breakthrough Thinking" Examines how Toyota conducts information gathering. Illustrates how Toyota builds and maintains its unique business culture Shows how Toyota "goes to the customer" and comprehensively studies how customers use their products Reveals Toyota’s cars have become some of the biggest selling models in the USA The authors of this book explore Toyota thinking habits as well as Toyota’s global marketing strategy, which, since the 1980sa, has been expanding exponentially. The reader will understand the importance of thinking habits in the workplace and will know how to apply them using Toyota as the prime case study.
El Sistema de Produccion Toyota
Author: Taiichi Ohno
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135145367X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : es
Pages : 131
Book Description
Si usted quiere entender como se origino el sistema de producci?n Toyota y por que tiene exito, debe leer este libro. Aqui encontrara una introducci?n avanzada del justo a tiempo. El mundo le debe mucho a Taiichi Ohno. Nos ha demostrado como fbricar con mayor eficacia, como reducir costos, como producir una mayor calidad, y a examinar atentamente como nosotros, en nuestra calidad de seres humanos, trabajamos en una fbrica. El relato que Ohno cuenta en este libro es brillante. Deberia ser leido por todos los gerentes. No es solo un relato acerca de la fabricaci?n; sino tambien sobre como dirigir exitosamente una empresa.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135145367X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : es
Pages : 131
Book Description
Si usted quiere entender como se origino el sistema de producci?n Toyota y por que tiene exito, debe leer este libro. Aqui encontrara una introducci?n avanzada del justo a tiempo. El mundo le debe mucho a Taiichi Ohno. Nos ha demostrado como fbricar con mayor eficacia, como reducir costos, como producir una mayor calidad, y a examinar atentamente como nosotros, en nuestra calidad de seres humanos, trabajamos en una fbrica. El relato que Ohno cuenta en este libro es brillante. Deberia ser leido por todos los gerentes. No es solo un relato acerca de la fabricaci?n; sino tambien sobre como dirigir exitosamente una empresa.
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development
Author: Jeffrey K. Liker
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071780793
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success—LEAN LEADERSHIP Winner of the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award “This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean leadership. Not only is it a pleasure to read, but it is also deep and enlightening. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in lean: it’s both an eye opener and a game changer.” —Michael Ballé, Ph.D., coauthor of The Gold Mine and The Lean Manager “This will immediately be recognized as the most important book ever published to understand and guide ‘True North Lean’ and the goal of perpetual business excellence.” —Ross E. Robson, President and CEO, DnR Lean, LLC, and the original Director of The Shingo Prize “An excellent book that will shape leadership development for decades to come.” —Karen Martin, Principal, Karen Martin & Associates, and author of The Kaizen Event Planner About the Book: TOYOTA. The name signifies greatness—world-class cars and game-changing business thinking. One key to the Toyota Motor Company’s unprecedented success is its famous production system and its lesser-known product development program. These strategies consider the end user at every turn and have become the model for the global lean business movement. All too often, organizations adopting lean miss the most critical ingredient—lean leadership. Toyota makes enormous investments in carefully selecting and intensively developing leaders who fit its unique philosophy and culture. Thanks to the company’s lean leadership approach, explains Toyota Way author Jeffrey Liker and former Toyota executive Gary Convis, the celebrated carmaker has set into motion a drive for continuous improvement at all levels of its business. This has allowed for: Constant growth: Toyota increased profitability for 58 consecutive years—slowing down only in the face of 2008’s worldwide financial difficulties, the recall crisis, and the worst Japanese earthquake of the century. Unstoppable inventiveness: Toyota’s approach to innovative thinking and problem solving has resulted in top industry ratings and incredible customer satisfaction, while allowing the company to weather these three crises in rapid succession and to come out stronger. Strong branding and respect: Toyota’s reputation was instrumental in the company’s ability to withstand the recalls-driven media storm of 2010. But what looked to some to be a sinking ship is once again running under a full head of steam. Perhaps the Toyota culture had weakened, but lean leadership was the beacon that showed the way back. In fact, writes Liker, the company is “as good and perhaps a better model for lean leadership than it ever has been.” of innovation and growth. Yet, Industry Week reports that just 2 percent of companies using lean processes can likewise claim to have had long-term success. What the other 98 percent lack is unified leadership with a common method and philosophy. If you want to get lean, you have to take it to the leadership level. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership shows you how.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071780793
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success—LEAN LEADERSHIP Winner of the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award “This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean leadership. Not only is it a pleasure to read, but it is also deep and enlightening. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in lean: it’s both an eye opener and a game changer.” —Michael Ballé, Ph.D., coauthor of The Gold Mine and The Lean Manager “This will immediately be recognized as the most important book ever published to understand and guide ‘True North Lean’ and the goal of perpetual business excellence.” —Ross E. Robson, President and CEO, DnR Lean, LLC, and the original Director of The Shingo Prize “An excellent book that will shape leadership development for decades to come.” —Karen Martin, Principal, Karen Martin & Associates, and author of The Kaizen Event Planner About the Book: TOYOTA. The name signifies greatness—world-class cars and game-changing business thinking. One key to the Toyota Motor Company’s unprecedented success is its famous production system and its lesser-known product development program. These strategies consider the end user at every turn and have become the model for the global lean business movement. All too often, organizations adopting lean miss the most critical ingredient—lean leadership. Toyota makes enormous investments in carefully selecting and intensively developing leaders who fit its unique philosophy and culture. Thanks to the company’s lean leadership approach, explains Toyota Way author Jeffrey Liker and former Toyota executive Gary Convis, the celebrated carmaker has set into motion a drive for continuous improvement at all levels of its business. This has allowed for: Constant growth: Toyota increased profitability for 58 consecutive years—slowing down only in the face of 2008’s worldwide financial difficulties, the recall crisis, and the worst Japanese earthquake of the century. Unstoppable inventiveness: Toyota’s approach to innovative thinking and problem solving has resulted in top industry ratings and incredible customer satisfaction, while allowing the company to weather these three crises in rapid succession and to come out stronger. Strong branding and respect: Toyota’s reputation was instrumental in the company’s ability to withstand the recalls-driven media storm of 2010. But what looked to some to be a sinking ship is once again running under a full head of steam. Perhaps the Toyota culture had weakened, but lean leadership was the beacon that showed the way back. In fact, writes Liker, the company is “as good and perhaps a better model for lean leadership than it ever has been.” of innovation and growth. Yet, Industry Week reports that just 2 percent of companies using lean processes can likewise claim to have had long-term success. What the other 98 percent lack is unified leadership with a common method and philosophy. If you want to get lean, you have to take it to the leadership level. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership shows you how.
The Toyota Way
Author: Jeffrey K. Liker
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071435638
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: Eliminating wasted time and resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071435638
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: Eliminating wasted time and resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector
The Elegant Solution
Author: Matthew May
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847375138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
One million. That's how many new ideas the Toyota organization receives from its employees every year. These ideas come from every level of the organization - from the factory floors to the corporate suites. And organizations all over the world want to learn how they do it. Now Matthew May, Senior Advisor to the University of Toyota, reveals how any company can create an environment of every day innovation and achieve the elegant solutions found only on the far side of complexity. A tactical guide for team-based innovation, THE ELEGANT SOLUTION delivers the formula to the three principles and ten practices that drive business creativity. Innovation isn't just about technology - it's about value, opportunity and impact. When a company embeds a real discipline around the pursuit of perfection, the sky is the limit. Dozens of case studies (from Toyota and other companies) illustrate the power and universality of these concepts; a unique 'clamshell strategy' prepares managers to ensure organizational success. At once a thought-shaper, a playmaker, and a taskmaster, THE ELEGANT SOLUTION is a practical field manual for everyone in corporate life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847375138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
One million. That's how many new ideas the Toyota organization receives from its employees every year. These ideas come from every level of the organization - from the factory floors to the corporate suites. And organizations all over the world want to learn how they do it. Now Matthew May, Senior Advisor to the University of Toyota, reveals how any company can create an environment of every day innovation and achieve the elegant solutions found only on the far side of complexity. A tactical guide for team-based innovation, THE ELEGANT SOLUTION delivers the formula to the three principles and ten practices that drive business creativity. Innovation isn't just about technology - it's about value, opportunity and impact. When a company embeds a real discipline around the pursuit of perfection, the sky is the limit. Dozens of case studies (from Toyota and other companies) illustrate the power and universality of these concepts; a unique 'clamshell strategy' prepares managers to ensure organizational success. At once a thought-shaper, a playmaker, and a taskmaster, THE ELEGANT SOLUTION is a practical field manual for everyone in corporate life.
How Toyota Became #1
Author: David Magee
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9781591842293
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Journalist Magee explores Toyotas past and present in order to reveal how this car company has sustained such tremendous success. The lessons that Magee explains here can be valuable for managers in all disciplines and industries.
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9781591842293
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Journalist Magee explores Toyotas past and present in order to reveal how this car company has sustained such tremendous success. The lessons that Magee explains here can be valuable for managers in all disciplines and industries.