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Kaizen

Japanese for “continuous improvement”. At Toyota it is the daily work of every team on its own processes, not a one-off project.

The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development, Jeffrey Liker, Gary Convis

Explained in

• The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development, Jeffrey Liker, Gary Convis
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma

  A Japanese word meaning “improvement”. The name for an approach in which things are improved constantly and little by little.

• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer, Jeffrey Liker

  Japanese for "improvement": constant small improvements to the work, suggested by the workers themselves.

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