Description: Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description A leading expert on Toyota provides the very first look at the companys people-management routines Publisher Description "Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture."—Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way"[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking."—The Systems Thinker"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."—James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute"Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way weve found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization."—John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise InstituteThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automakers management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.Drawing on six years of research into Toyotas employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the companys organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout 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 Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: 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 Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure 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. Author Biography Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher, and a guest researcher at the Technical University Dortmund. Rothers work has bought 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, and Cologne, Germany. Rother has been entered into the Association of Manufacturing Excellences Hall of Fame. Details ISBN 0071635238 ISBN-13 9780071635233 Title Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results Author Mike Rother Format Hardcover Year 2009 Pages 336 Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe GE_Item_ID:21163197; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780071635233
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Book Title: Toyota KATA: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Education
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: Training, Human Resources & Personnel Management, Total Quality Management, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Industrial Management, Automotive / General
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Genre: Transportation, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 9.1 Oz
Author: Mike Rother
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
