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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance Jeffrey K. Liker and James K.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2011

Wiley & Sons (2007) A “must have&# combination of compass, GPS, tool kit, and operations manual for BNT Whatever their size or nature, all organizations have business relationships. In recent years, it has become increasingly more difficult to [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

With Jeff’s permission, I now share it, with a strong recommendation that you read his latest book, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence [.]. In a recent email from Jeff Liker, he shared a portion of a conversation he recently had with Akio Toyoda, chairman and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and principal of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. He has authored or co-authored over 75 articles and book chapters and ten books.

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MAY 30, 2012

Previous to Korn/Ferry, she spent a decade as Global Managing Partner with another global leadership advisory firm and prior to that, helped to [.]. Jane Edison Stevenson is Vice Chairman, Board & CEO Services at Korn/Ferry International, where she co-leads the firm’s Global CEO Succession Practice.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 15, 2011

The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton Harvard Business Press (2000) The Perilous “Journey&# to Breakthrough Performance Note: This is another “business classic” I read when it was first published and then recently re-read it.

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MAY 12, 2012

The most obvious answer is to change the way you develop change leaders if the process you now have isn’t working very well.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Adam Bryant for The New York Times (March 12, 2001) in which he focuses on a plan that Google code-named Project Oxygen in early 2009. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Laszlo Bock of Google says its study found [.].

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