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Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way
by Jeffrey Liker, Michael Hoseus
from McGraw-Hill

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Building people before building cars!
  This is again a Jeffrey Liker book (although probably mostly written by Michael Hoseus). And that means that you can learn, but also that you will suffer. Because you have to understand the 'living' meaning behind the words. And that is not gooing to be easy ...
  Learning items are for example:
  - what is lean culture and what is the impact on business
  - how to hire/select/train people and what to train
  - people and organisation as work teams, team leader. But also visual management... more info

• Another great Toyota book from Liker
  Toyota Culture is the 5th book in "the Liker Toyota series". After Toyota Way, Toyota Way Fieldbook, Toyota Product Development and Toyota Talent, you would expect that there is less news to write about Toyota. Well, not true. Toyota Talent is the thickest book in the series with it's almost 600 pages of Toyota info.
  Toyota Culture mainly covers HR practices and related policies. It describes this as "the people value stream". How does Toyota hire and train people (the detailed training processes are... more info

• The Toyota Culture is great
  Jeff Liker has done an absolutely wonderful job of explaining the Toyota way and the cultural aspects. I worked at Nummi early on as the Program Manager for the 1989 Prism and Corolla. I could see and feel the Toyota Way but myself and my peers could not articulate it as well as Jeff has.
  This is a very good book for understanding. It gives you the vision and what your organization could be. Toyota has an advantage over most compnaies because their new places do not have a legacy culture that needs to... more info

• Essential reading for safety mangers too
  While more 'quality' orientated this book should be read by every safety manager too as it has application outside the production line.

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