Extreme Toyota radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer
By almost any measure, Toyota is a model of extreme performance among the world's best manufacturers. The company is hugely profitable, known for strong engineering, durability, and reliability, and is on track to replace GM as the world's largest automaker. This book explains what makes T...
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Hoboken, N.J.
John Wiley & Sons
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index
- Extreme Toyota: an organization powered by creative contradictions
- Six opposing forces that drive the company's expansion
- and keep it from breaking apart
- The force of impossible goals
- Eagerness to experiment
- Local customization
- The founder's philosophies
- Toyota's nerve system
- a human version of the world Wide Web
- Up-and-in human resource management
- Toyota's resource base
- A company always in danger
- What your organization can learn from Toyota: ten powerful contradictions
- Literature review (pages 257-262)