THE TOYOTA WAY: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer | 2nd Edition

Must Read book for anyone in Manufacturing. Discuss the toyota culure and lean manufacturing in a very detailed way. Its all about developing people at all levels. Always have a compass but never a roadmap. The reality needs to be constantly checked and acted upon for continous improvement.Review: Excellent book for operations management

Must read. Original quality book.

Really informative and good binding

Must read for the ones who owns a business

Well to start with, it took so long for me to complete the book, too long and then long enough to write the review too.I am IT professional and Toyota means two things to me, Cars and Kanban. So I know a little about this company before I picked this book, and frankly that was a reason for me to pick it too. I was wondering I would read a lot about cars and the way the company over came crisis like typical natural disasters in Japan and then the crisis like international car manufacturers competition, along with that on how Kanban was born, brought up at Toyota.Well not far from my expectations but very far from my understanding, this company has emerged from ground, it was so wonderful to learn about the Toyota family and their legacy. As a kid, Toyota started understanding the needs of people around and started working on making things easy for his family and other villagers. Weaver was their primary source of food and it included heavy labour, this is where the need for some tools was realized.The first invention of Toyota was the automated weaving machine, which was not at all in shape if we see what is made today. But he never stopped, Toyota were the first to invent the completely automated weaving machine which could stop itself even when one of its hundreds threads is broken, that was a huge success. Over the generations, their family has moved into many new inventions and markets, one of them was automobiles.They have an unique production system called, TPS – Toyota Production System, which eventually became Kanban after decades. But the way they learnt it and applied it was something one has to learn. It is still the same system that is followed in all the Toyota plants all over the world. It has such discipline and order that their success formulae has, at core remained the same and has only topped up as the time passed.Some of the terms, or say approaches that they have are so wonderful like the Genchi Gembutsa, meaning go to the place where the actual issue is and understand, resolve. Similar is the term Gimba, which me the actual ground or place of work or problem.Well this list of terms can go on and so are the wonderful points in the book. I liked the TPS and the way it is approached across the plants, across the globe and over the decades. Is it really hard to apply TPS, well if we heart fully understand and apply it isn’t but that is really difficult to follow so.If I need to keep my review short, I recommend people to take time and read the book, though not all of it is relevant to everyone but there sure are some wonderful things on the book to learn, especially about the way Toyota has survived all these years. To me the book was a lot of learning and some of it was surely boring. So don’t blame me if you get bored too.

good

Original book delivered. Condition is very good.

Not a good print and pages