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The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation
by Matthew E. May
from Free Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Can Be Used for Personal Development
I really enjoyed this book. It applies the principles of innovation to an industry that most people don't have familiar "inside" knowledge of. The book is useful not only for business purposes but also for personal development. I loved the sections on the Japanese concept of "hansei." The only criticism I have of the material is that at times it can be a bit dry. Probably to be expected when writing about the automotive industry.
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My new Bible 
I marked probably 30 pages in this book as "Must Know" pages that contain principles that could change the thinking of any business for the better - or more specifically, to be more like Toyota.
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A good read
This book is a very easy read that made it hard to put it down. The little success stories are very inspiring and great conversation starters.
"The Elegant Solution" is written by Matthew E. May an educator on innovation at Toyota's university. I think that Matthew did a really good job of explaining his procedures to making any company run elegantly with examples of his procedures in little side notes and quotes of related stories.
This book will not only help you find an elegant solution... more info
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Unreadable 
Unbelievably bad. Ironically, for a book about innovation, the concepts are trite and the prose consists of one lazy cliche after another.
Watch -- I'm going to open the book to a random page and list the cliches: "secret sauce," "blow the doors off," "boil the ocean," "where the action is," "ivory tower," "marching instructions."
The book is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who might conceivably want to read it.
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