Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer | 
 enlarge | Authors: Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, Hirotaka Takeuchi
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0470267623
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2068
EAN: 9780470267622
ASIN: 0470267623
Publication Date: May 23, 2008
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To an outsider, Toyota is hard to understand. The company moves forward gradually while also advancing in big leaps. It is frugal with its resources while spending extravagantly on people and projects. It is both efficient and redundant; it cultivates an environment of stability and paranoia; it is hierarchical and bureaucratic, but encourages dissent; it demands that communication be simplified while building complex communication networks. These contradictions are rampant at Toyota because its culture and managers intentionally embrace contradiction, opposites, and paradox. Granted unprecedented access to the inner workings of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company and performing more than 220 interviews with Toyota employees, distributors, and car dealers in order to determine what makes Toyota one of the world's best companies. Extreme Toyota offers an inside look at the radical contradictions within the company, created by its own management, and how these help Toyota outperform its competition. By putting a premium on creativity and paradoxical thinking as a corporate resource, Toyota has become the best car manufacturer and one of the most successful companies on earth. This book takes a fascinating inside look at what makes Toyota tick.
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Good manager level book on TPS. August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read most of the detailed TPS books, this one was a bit to theoretical. Realize it was likely written for the MBA crowd....
I still find it a bit odd that Toyota subject books tend to avoid the fact that no company is perfect. Wouldn't trade the hectic workweek it sounds like the Japanese based staff work for anything. I liked the references to the CEO's push even thought business was good at the time.
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