Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2015

Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno : What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System by Takehiko Harada. Intelligent Disobedience : Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong by Ira Chaleff. The Achievement Habit : Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth.

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Ohno Books Library Leadership 150

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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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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Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. – Taiichi Ohno. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. – Peter Block. Don’t look with your eyes, look with your feet.

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Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. – Taiichi Ohno. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. – Russell Ackoff. Don’t look with your eyes, look with your feet.

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Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. To Shoichiro Toyoda’s chagrin, the best Toyota’s quantity-based production system could offer was immediate trouble-shooting. Post by Bill Bellows. The basic problem anywhere is quality. What is quality? Edwards Deming.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

I offer these comments as feedback on efforts to apply improvement principles, including the Toyota Production System, to turnaround situations. Such thinking embodies the “production viewed as a system” advice that W. Only with expansion of the system, in time and/or in space, could there be doubt as once unknowns become known.

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