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From the world's leading expert on implementing Toyota-style continuous improvementtwo popular guides to  achieving challenging goals in one convenient packageToyota Kata has become the tried and trusted way to develop an agile, scientific approach in any team or organization. This Toyota Kata two-in-one set provides the background knowledge and deployment how-to you need to master the most effective process known for achieving challenging goalsin any company, in any industry: Toyota Kata explains the scientific-thinking skill practice that has driven Toyota's success for decades. This book reveals a people-based management approach that makes continuous improvement and adaptiveness a growth mindset a part of everyday work. Toyota Kata Practice Guide focuses on implementation, showing anyone how to make scientific-thinking skill building work in their organization. Fully illustrated, it provi

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Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results!In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list of management concepts, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide walks you through the process of making improvement, adaptation, and even innovation routine behavior.Designed to help a coach (the manager) and a learner work together for developing new skillsets, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide delivers the information, insight, and frameworks you need to:• Form habits that help you solve problems and achieve challenging goals • Modify the thought patterns that drive your behavior• Develop an organizational mindset that drives superior results The Improvement Kata gives learners the means to experiment their way through obstacles and achieve tough goals; the Coaching Kata gives managers the means to accelerate and cement their people's learning.In the new age of business, increasing efficiency and decreasing costs is no longer the end game. A manager’s job today is to develop patterns of thinking and acting in their people that lead to success with any challenge. Consistent, mindful practice is the best way to do it—and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide is the best way to get there.

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Take advantage of your organization’s brainpower with Kata-driven continuous improvement“This is the first book I have read that provides a clear picture of what it takes to develop and mobilize creative capability across an organization, to achieve challenging goals.” Jeffrey K. Liker, author of The Toyota Way (from the Foreword)Nobody drives continuous improvement in real, tangible ways like Toyota, where everyone at every level works toward common, customer-related goals. At Toyota, continuous improvement is habitual. In his groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother revealed management practices that drive Toyota’s success in providing value to their customers. Now, Rother and coauthor Gerd Aulinger provide the routines and know-how for scaling these practices across your entire organization. It all builds on five simple foundational questions at every level:What is the target condition?What is the actual condition?What obstacles stand in the way of the target condition?What is the next step? What have you learned from taking that step?Illustrated cover to cover, Toyota Kata Culture helps you visualize exactly how these methods work—so you can start putting them into action right away. You’ll learn how to develop your own iterative process of trial and adjustment, build a deliberate, scientific-thinking culture that grows capability, and make aligned strategic continuous improvement part of everyday work. Achieve your goals and differentiate your organization by following the proven formula laid out in Toyota Kata Culture.

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