Toyota Kata

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THIS GAME-CHANGING BOOK puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's managennent practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of our human brainpower.
Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines— called kata. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations, and it provides specific answers to questions such as
I ¦ How can we make improvement
i and adaptation part of everyday
1 work tlirougliout the organization?
¦ How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?
¦ How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers?
Mike Bother explains how to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THIS GAME-CHANGING BOOK puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's managennent practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of our human brainpower.
Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines— called kata. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations, and it provides specific answers to questions such as
I ¦ How can we make improvement
i and adaptation part of everyday
1 work tlirougliout the organization?
¦ How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?
¦ How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers?
Mike Bother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: The Improvement Kata—a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and The Coaching Kata—a pattern of teaching
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the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure that it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.
With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.
Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher, and a guest researcher at the Technical University Dortmund. Pother's work has brought him to numerous companies and hundreds of factories around the world, where he collaborates with people to test ideas and shares lessons learned. He splits his time between Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Cologne, Germany.







LEAD, MANAGE, AND DEVELOP YOUR PEOPLE—THE TOYOTA WAY!
In Toyota Kata, two-tinne Shingo Prize-winning author IVIike Rother provides a close look at Toyota's employee management methods. He examines the company's unique leadership routines (kata) that create Toyota's legendary continuous improvement and adaptation—and explains how you can develop these routines in your own organization!
"By uncovering exactly what makes Toyota the standard bearer in a way that is accessible to every management level, in every industry, Rother has given the business world a true gem—Toyota Kata is a must read!" —Keith Allman, President, Delta Faucet Company
"Mike Bother's Toyota Kata is a rare and exciting event—a book that casts entirely new light on a much-heralded set of management practices, giving those
practices new significance and power." —from the foreword by H. Thomas Johnson, author of Profit Beyond Measure
"In Toyota Kata Rother has put his finger on the heart of the coaching process at Toyota. Much of Toyota's success is rooted in these subtle yet powerful behaviors Mike so clearly describes. Kata provides a level of clear insight into the key behaviors underlying Toyota culture in a way that can be easily understood and applied. Essential reading for any company committed to lasting culture change." —Bill Costantino, W3 Group, Former Group Leader TMMK (Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc.)
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