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Leadership lessons in Toyota City – this time at Toyota Memorial Hospital Immediately after writing a post on the train asking for your questions, I met my
As a Lean healthcare practitioner and coach, it has been one of my goals while living in Japan to learn more about how Japanese hospitals think
Earlier this week I went to Nagoya for a day trip to visit with my friend and Toyota mentor, Mr. Isao Yoshino, where we got
This is the final part in my recent series of posts about my visit to Nagoya in June to talk with Isao Yoshino about his
During my visit Nagoya in June, Isao Yoshino and I spent many hours talking about leadership and Lean/TPS in Japan. Yoshino-san is a retired 40-year Toyota
After running into the former Chairman of Toyota, Mr. Cho, moments earlier at the Nagoya train station, I arrived at the first stop of the day –
In June before I left Japan for our summer visit back to the United States, I jumped on the bullet train to Nagoya again to spend
Before I visited the Toyota Kyushu plant to talk with the Toyota TPS Promotion Office manager, I posted on social media to see if anyone had questions
Following our tour of the Toyota Kyushu plant, which I wrote about in an earlier post, my Japanese colleague was able to set up a
Last week I flew down to Japan’s southern island of Kyushu to visit the Toyota Kyushu Miyata plant and have a private conversation with the
One of the presenters that I enjoyed the most at last month’s Australasian Lean Thinking and Practice Summit was Doug Rickarby from Toyota Australia. He
On Monday I had the honor to spend the day with Isao Yoshino, a 40-year Toyota executive and one of John Shook’s first managers at Toyota, and visited
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