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

Episode Page 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/