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Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management
by Taiichi Ohno
from Gemba Press

Features:

• This classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production System returns to print in a new translation.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• An afternoon with the Lean Mastermind
  Sit down, serve yourself some green tea, and listen. Listen to the father of the Toyota Production System talk about the concepts behind the concepts. The "root causes" (root goals, here) of Kaizen, inventory, autonomation, bosses and workers, Kaizen, cost reduction, standards, more Kaizen, robots, and more cost reduction. Learn. Double learn. Triple learn! This short book is a fascinating read. A MUST READ for anybody interested in Lean principles and the history of Toyota.
  My preferred part: when... more info

• This book made me think...
  "A wiseman is a person who can explain complex things in simple words."
  Trully Taiichi Ohno was (and still is due to his TPS and books) a wiseman. This book made me think. Think about the issues I thought as not important, made me think over the issues I already had some opinion.
  Every chapter (about 40) is packed and the clue is presented. There is no "bla, bla, bla" as other LM books. Here you find the essence from the real Sensei.
  Pro: every sentence is this book.
  Cons: not found.

• Excellent, futher evidence why lean is so hard to copy
  This book is a compelation of 38 short chapters that originally were spoken narratives with Taiichi Ohno. Jon Miller took these wonderful gems and then translated into English. There's also an excellent Publisher's Foreword and even better Afterword taken from Taiichi's 1st TPS textbook.
  Some concepts are likely to be unpopular and/or counterintuitive, such as scolding subordinates in front of others or most people are wrong 30-40% of the time. As such, this book is not for beginners or junior... more info

• Not suitable for beginners
  This book is - as mentioned bij others - a remarkable object, coming from one of the founder fathers of Toyota's Lean Adventure. The book is not written by him, but is the result of several discussions (or monologues) from Ohno. As such it is already possible to use as a study of Ohno himself.
  However,I suppose that Ohno-san would not like to be a hero or a white knight. This is not lean thinking, where the real hero's are those who add real value to the endcustomer.
  So, this book is of no help... more info

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