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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Ohno Products Productivity Six Sigma 50

Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. Performance appraisal is that occasion when once a year you find out who claims sovereignty over you. – 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. – 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

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

Yukiyasu Togo, a former employee and co-author of Against All Odds: The Story of the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Family That Created It , provided an explanation of Shoichiro Toyoda’s desire to implement a quality-based system, in parallel with the quantity-based Just-in-Time (JIT) system.

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Quality Deming Ohno System 48

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.) I believe deeply in the value of Deming’s ideas on management but see so many companies make poor attempts to improve management.

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Technology Deming Ohno Handbook 40