The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership

Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development

By: Jeffrey Liker, Gary L. Convis

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Case studies from Toyota clearly illustrate the methods that create powerful, effective Lean leadership. Jeffrey Liker, author of the popular Toyota Way books, is the acknowledged expert on Toyota processes. He is professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. After his executive leadership at Toyota, Gary L. Convis became the CEO of Dana Holding Corporation, a $6.1 billion supplier to the global automotive, commercial vehicle, and off-highway markets, and helped lead it to a successful turnaround from bankruptcy.

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©2011 Jeffrey Liker, Gary L. Convis (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

Great summary book about Lean management practices

I would recommend this if you want to learn the difficult-to-replicate culture and leadership aspects of Lean. but it's presented in an easy to understand approach.

Great Information

Listening to this book was very easy, the narrator was great and the information was clear. it's a book that will have to be listened to many times to really absorb everything in this book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

Greate lesson

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This book is a greate lesson about how getting to the basics and lean methodology is basic for Toyota and other companies. I think that this book is essential for every beginer in leadership and people management.

What about Jim Meskimen’s performance did you like?

I did like Jim Meskimen's as a narrator of this book.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

How to start everything from begining Toyota Style

How to Lean from Successful Leaders

Jeffrey Liker has a knack for simplifying and encapsulating the essence of Lean. In this book, Liker weaves Gary Convis' personal experiences and insights into another engaging and valuable treatment of the subject. If you are engaged in a Lean journey, you should read this book.

I am happy i started my journey with this book.

First leadership book I’ve read. I can’t compare it to anything else. However, i’m happy i started my journey with this book.

Love it

TPS goes deep and the authors flesh it out as much as practical in one volume. Recommend read for leaders especially manufacturing leaders.

I look forward to listening to this again!

I've always been interested in kaizen and intended to read "The Machine that Changed the World" but havn't had the opportunity. This book came up as one of the Audible 2 for 1 deals and I jumped on the chance. Over all I've been very happy. Even when talking about the mundane parts of management I was engaged and enjoyed it. I really recommend this for anyone that is interested in business, business history, management or just enjoys a well put together book.

Excellent presentation

I really enjoyed this book. I would like to be able to hear more books on the Toyota way. I've studied this material for some time but the audible version was very much to my liking.

Interesting

I found this interesting and enlightening. It got down to the specifics of what makes the Toyota system work

It's not as easy as it looks

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If you are fascinated by the success of Toyota Motor Corporation and their rise to near domination of the global automobile market, this is the book for you.

What did you like best about this story?

The book covers in almost painstaking detail the methods used by Toyota to grow leaders from within the company. It is that approach, the nurturing of self-improving people that is the backbone of Toyota's success. I purchased many of the accompanying hardcover books for more information. The concept is simple: grow leaders and problem solvers from within. It's the patience required and the discipline to execute and stick with the plan that is hard for other companies to duplicate.

Have you listened to any of Jim Meskimen’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

This is my first time listening to the narrator. He is appropriate for a business book. He delivers the information very effectively. But this is no John Grisham novel!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Definitely not. I found myself rewinding and listening again and again to make sure I understood the concepts. I have listened to it twice and will listen a third time.

Any additional comments?

Great book for business. The Toyota Way is really hard to duplicate and that's what gives them their competitive advantage.