Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July. Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno : What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System by Takehiko Harada. Team Genius : The New Science of High-Performing Organizations by Rich Karlgaard and Michael S.

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Ohno Books Library Leadership 150

Deming Institute

AUGUST 24, 2017

Once upon a time, well before his name entered lean folklore, Taiichi Ohno graduated from industrial school and earned a position with Toyoda Spinning & Weaving as a supervisor. The year was 1933 and Ohno soon became well known for his mustache, added to further his image of authority with his direct reports, a large group of women.

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Ohno Deming Books Open-book 31

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. – Russell Ackoff. Don’t look with your eyes, look with your feet.

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Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. He also had a profound way with words.

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Deming Ohno System Audience 31

Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

There are many things needed to improve the success of organizations improvement efforts but I believe the right knowledge (the ideas talked about by Deming, Ackoff, Ohno, Scholtes, etc.) One old method of sharing knowledge I still think is very important and is also very easy – reading good books. will help a great deal.

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Technology Ohno Deming Handbook 40

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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Ries Drucker Review Entrepreneur 103