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The Toyota Way, Second Edition: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer, 2nd Edition
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The Toyota Way, Second Edition: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer, 2nd Edition

by Jeffrey K. Liker
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
13h 7m
English
McGraw-Hill
Audiobook available
Content preview from The Toyota Way, Second Edition: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer, 2nd Edition

 Principle 12 

Observe Deeply and Learn Iteratively (PDCA) to Meet Each Challenge

During the testing of the 200 looms (to test if they would work in real world operating conditions) I came out with various suggestions, and [Father] tried every single one of them. Humans come up with a surprising number of useless ideas; when you actually try them out, the ones you thought were good ideas sometimes prove to be unexpectedly useless, and the ones you thought were bad ideas sometimes turn out to be unexpectedly good. This is the principle that practice is number one. In a discussion about a certain thing with my father, I won the discussion. The conclusion to be drawn from our discussion was that it was not worth trying it out. But Father said, ...

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