Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results | Date: 28 April 2011, 06:14
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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
By Mike Rother
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill
* Number Of Pages: 306
* Publication Date: 2009-08-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071635238
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071635233
Product Description:
"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
This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's 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 Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's 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.
Summary: Meet the Author
Rating: 5
The Lean Six Sigma Users Group of Gateway Technical College is sponsoring a seminar featuring Mike Rother, author of Toyota Kata on October 28, 2009 in Sturtevant, Wisconsin. For more information: tilleye@gtc.edu.
Summary: Toyota Kata An Essential Tool For Any Manager
Rating: 5
Toyota Kata is a thought-provoking and eye-opening read for anyone looking to improve productivity in their organization -- a crucial tool during these lean times. It explains
surprising new research findings in a clear and compelling way that
lets you directly apply the lessons that are discussed. It gives a fascinating glimpse into the unseen managerial routines and thinking that lie behind Toyota's success with the concepts of continuous improvement and adaptation. And it shows how other companies can develop similar routines and thinking in their organizations. For anyone who is part of a company where people need to work together to achieve challenging goals, this book will show you a better way to
do it. I highly recommend it.
Summary: Must read now!
Rating: 5
if you're involved in lean work in any capacity, whether in management, as a coach or as a participants to lean events, you must read this book now. It's a game changer. I wish I'd read this book ten years ago, it would have made so much, much easier. I've already ordered extra copies to give to friends and colleagues.
Rother has attacked directly a mystery about Toyota's success - the secret of what makes it a real-life example of learning organization, not just at senior level, but all the way to team leaders and team members. Indeed, he has succeeded in the tour de force of capturing the double-loop learning mechanism Toyota has developed. And he also succeeds in putting it across simply and practically with great examples. Beyond lean, this book offers deep insight into how business strategy can be derived from learning mechanism to avoid grand visions which also turn out to be grandly wrong. I suspect (or at least hope) that Rother's insights will open the door to another form of strategy formulation.
In many ways this book can either be seen as the result of twenty years of research on the mystery of Toyota and the TPS, or one the breakthrough stepping stones that will usher a new era of management thinking about how we look upon the human use of human beings at work. Thumbs up!
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