Extreme Toyota : radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer

Extreme Toyota : radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer

Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Soundview Executive Book Summaries (-)
Other Authors: Osono, Emi Author (author), Shimizu, Norihiko Contributor (contributor), Takeuchi, Hirotaka Contributor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] John Wiley & Sons 2008
Edition:1st edition
Subjects:
Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki Kaisha > Management.
Automobile industry and trade > Management > Japan.
Total quality management
Organizational effectiveness
Business & Economics
Industries
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627311206719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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