Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management
This book brings to us Taiichi Ohno's philosophy of workplace management   the thinking behind the Toyota Production System.  I personally get a thrill down my spine to read these thoughts in Ohno's own words.  My favorite part is his discussion of the misconceptions hidden within common sense and how management needs a revolution of awareness. - --Dr. Jeffrey Liker, Director , Japan Technology Management Program, University of Michigan and Author "The Toyota Way"While no one person invented lean, no one is given more credit than Taiichi Ohno. Access to his true thoughts and ideas are rare, and this book is the best and most useful of Ohno's work. Many lean students would want nothing more than to spend a day with Taiichi Ohno walking through their plant. This book is the closest thing we have left to that experience. Jon Miller has done a diligent job not just in translation but ensuring that the true meaning comes through in a readable fashion. You truly feel as if you are in conversation with the father of the Toyota Production System. While this book won't paint a clear picture of what to do next on your lean journey, it should be required reading for any serious student of the subject. - --Jamie Flinchbaugh, Co-author, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road"This book and its translation provide the reader a wonderful opportunity to learn directly from the master architect of the Toyota Production System.  One is able to hear, in his own words, the principles that have evolved into the most successful management method ever developed.  Today, these lessons are being applied in many industries including health care in addition to their long term application in manufacturing.  This book enables the reader to get inside Taiichi Ohno's thinking as he makes concepts such as Kanban, The Supermarket System and Just in Time come alive in ways that can be easily understood.  This book will help me, as a senior executive in health care, better implement our management method, the Virginia Mason Production System. - --Gary S. Kaplan, MD, Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center