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Former Toyota Leader David Meier, on Toyota Talent (Again)
Season 1 · Episode 35

Former Toyota Leader David Meier, on Toyota Talent (Again)

Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond

January 28, 200826m 27s

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LeanBlog Podcast #35 is another discussion with David Meier, co-author of the book Toyota Talent, written with Dr. Jeffrey Liker. In this podcast, we follow up our previous discussion (Podcast #31) to talk about the upcoming Toyota books, as well as some of the leadership challenges that companies face with working with Lean.

If you enjoy this podcast, I hope you'll check out the rest of the series by visiting the LeanBlog podcast main page at http://www.leanpodcast.org/.

Keywords and Main Points, Episode #35

  • The next books coming in the series – Toyota Culture, Toyota Process, Toyota Problem Solving
  • Hearing comments about how companies have trouble sustaining Lean after 3 or 5 years — why is that happening and what's missing?
  • Talking about the LEI survey on why companies struggle with Lean
  • How is the Toyota San Antonio plant creating a system of systematic continuous improvement?
  • Following the stand problem solving methodology to find out why a company is struggling with Lean…
  • Instead of being punitive, leaders need to be more inspirational
  • Need to move away from blaming
  • Leadership has to communicate the message
  • His website: http://www.thetoyotaway.org/