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The missing link to long-term Lean success! Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former executive V.P. and managing officer of Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts - from simply performing their singular function to continuously improving in collaboration across the organization.

Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota's world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, establish and retain customer loyalty, and drive business profitability and sustainability.

The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota's operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota's success-proven practices to life in any organization. The Toyota Way Fieldbook will help other companies learn from Toyota and develop systems that fit their unique cultures.

Dr. Liker's book, Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. We have taken the time to extract the individual seminars and lectures of Dr. Liker used to create this world-renowned publication and offer them in a series of byte-size, topic-specific learning modules. Follow along as we hear Dr. Liker at those actual presentations delivered firsthand to the students of Lean and Lean Practitioners.

This book adds examples from over twenty years of experience by Dr. Liker in working with companies outside of Toyota. This audiobook treats you as a student who will be actively engaged in developing lean leader skills as you read. It acts as a tutorial for beginning the journey!

Welcome to what may be the most important module in this course. I'll be talking about problem-solving and a way of visually representing problem-solving. You may have heard this referred to as "A3 reporting" or "A3 storytelling". I will be referring to it as "A3 thinking"; that is, it's a way of thinking rather than documenting problem-solving on a piece of paper.

This is the most important module because in the Toyota Way, problem-solving drives continuous improvement and showing respect for people. Problem-solving is the core skill of a lean leader and it is the skill most leaders lack.

Dr. Liker's book, Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. We have taken the time to extract the individual seminars and lectures of Dr. Liker used to create this world-renowned publication and offer them in a series of byte-sized, topic specific learning modules. Follow along as we see and hear Dr. Liker at those actual presentations delivered first hand to the students of Lean and Lean Practitioners.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM), and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to explain the core skill of a Lean Leader; how to associate problem-solving with closing a gap between the current state and your target; how to make a distinction between the Toyota Way philosophy and the traditional western philosophy.

The teaching objective of this section is to compare management by objectives (MBO) and Hoshin Kanri.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. Learn about the behaviors required to sustain it long-term. Understand how leadership must walk the talk of True North. Find out how to actively engage in developing lean leader skills. This is the complete module 8.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. Learn about the behaviors required to sustain it long-term. Understand how leadership must walk the talk of True North. Find out how to actively engage in developing lean leader skills. This is module 8, section 2.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. Learn about the behaviors required to sustain it long-term. Understand how leadership must walk the talk of True North. Find out how to actively engage in developing lean leader skills. This is the complete module 5.

Dr. Liker's book Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. We have taken the time to extract the individual seminars and lectures of Dr. Liker used to create this world-renowned publication and offer them in a series of byte-sized, topic specific learning modules. Follow along as we see and hear Dr. Liker at those actual presentations delivered first hand to the students of Lean and Lean Practitioners.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to share another Gary Convis example of Dana, a company in crisis; share the implementation roadmap and results achieved in a very short time; and discuss the visualization and meeting management standards and responsibilities.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership development model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to explain how a leadership infrastructure can be built for a company in crisis, discuss the actions taken in order to focus on leadership, and show the seven-step process in creating the Dana Operating System.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership development model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to discuss what Dana did to sustain momentum after the initial gains, share results of the operational-excellence effort after the first few years, and show how Lean results depend on philosophy.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership development model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to review the Lean Leadership development model, instill that the way to develop these skills is through deliberate practice, and share a good plan for deliberately practicing these skills.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to share two examples in Gary’s career that provide great Hoshin Kanri examples; review the Warranty example from the second module; and provide the background regarding the Dana Corporation at the time of Gary’s arrival.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership development model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. This section discusses the Hoshin Kanri cycle and how Toyota executives use it and emphasizes how Hoshin Kanri and daily management are interconnected.

Follow along as Dr. Liker explains the Lean Leadership Development Model (LLDM) and how it aligns with the accepted principles of operational excellence. The teaching objectives for this section are to review the Lean Leadership Development Model; discuss the self-development learning cycles in more detail; and point out the triggers that tell you when you are ready for Hoshin Kanri.