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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership

Focuses on leadership development, self-development and the organizational routines behind durable lean performance.

Key takeaways

  1. Leaders develop themselves first
  2. Challenge plus support grows people
  3. Learning must cross organizational boundaries

How to apply it in your business

  1. Build a leadership competency matrix
  2. Pair each leader with a coaching mentor
  3. Review improvement capability, not just output

About the authors

Liker is a Toyota scholar; Convis is a former Toyota manufacturing executive.

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