Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

Foreword

Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata is a rare and exciting event—a book that casts entirely new light on a much heralded set of management practices, giving those practices new significance and power. Countless people in the past 20 or more years have studied and written about Toyota’s wildly successful management thinking and practice. But paradoxically, despite the vast amount of knowledge presented in these works, no organization outside Toyota’s family of companies has ever come close to matching Toyota’s stellar performance. There is a widespread feeling that something Toyota does is still not understood and put into practice by non-Toyota companies.

Toyota Kata will change all that. In this book, Mike Rother penetrates Toyota’s management ...