Leadership at all levels of lean production: practical guide. Liker J.

The company can grow and develop exactly as much as it develops its leaders. The times when organizations needed only competent performers, remained in the past. Today, development is impossible without the personal participation of everyone. This is what real leadership looks like: a leader who encourages colleagues to constantly improve. Each process should improve every day!

Jeffrey Liker, the leading world expert on Toyota methods, the author of many books, including Toyota, Toyota’s practice and many others, says the most important secret to Toyota: a unique system of development of leaders, which The company developed for several decades. It is this system that it is worth introducing instead of simple copying of individual lean products: “Exactly on time”, Kanban and others.