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. Backstabbers and Bullies : How to Cope with the Dark Side of People at Work by Adrian Furnham.

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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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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. A bad system will beat a good person every time. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. – Peter Block.

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Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. A bad system will beat a good person every time. – Taiichi Ohno. Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. – Taiichi Ohno. A system is more than the sum of its parts; it is an indivisible whole.

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Ohno Deming McGregor Management 40

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

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Variation appears in how well the parts are eventually integrated into a system and, how well the system performs, day after day. Post by Bill Bellows. The basic problem anywhere is quality. What is quality? Edwards Deming.

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Quality Deming Ohno System 48

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. Yet, the outcomes are far too hard to see, especially when one is confident in the direction of action, and when the system is open to both familiar and unfamiliar unknowns.

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