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Toyota Talent
by Jeffrey Liker, David Meier
from McGraw-Hill

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Addresses A Major Component of Toyota's Success
  Information on the Toyota Production System has been widely available for over 30 years - yet, no other company has been able to completely duplicate its success. The missing piece, according to the authors, is Toyota's people. Toyota believes that this is its true sustainable competitive advantage.
  A key point is made early in the book - managers want to manage; however, they must also be teachers. Another key point is Toyota's success lies not in simply picking the best people - it took one of GM's... more info

• Great Condition
  I have to say the book I received is pretty much what I expected. The book is new, in great conditons with a nice hardcover.
  I am pretty satisfied with my aqquisition.

• Toyota Talent - An excellent book to read!
  Liker and Meier did a good job to explain the TWI and Standard Work in different types of industry. This book also provides many detailed examples with implementation instructions for developing talented people within organizations. As a lean practitioner, this book becomes very handy when I work with cross-functional teams. This is a must read book to all decision makers who work with people!!!

• Probably could have been a lot shorter
  This book started off as a pretty boring book running on and on. It must have stated one point 3 different ways before it went to the next point. After about the 1st hundred pages it finally stopped doing that and became an enjoyable Toyota Way book that will surely help my company in our future implementation plan. I think one of the negatives is that the author made reference that this is not a DIY project (meaning that companies with no lean experts could handle this is absolute BS). I think the use of... more info

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