Toyota Kata : Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

To know and not to do is not yet to know.
—Zen saying

Anytime you start up a pull system, it will crash and burn within a short time.

If you ask five people, “What do we need to do here?” you will get six different answers.

With that in mind, here is my definition of management:
The systematic pursuit of desired conditions by utilizing human capabilities in a concerted way.

The Toyota person’s comments reminded me of the story about two people being chased by a hungry tiger. When one of them stops to put on some running shoes, the other says, “What are you doing? Do you not see the tiger coming?” The first person replies, “Yes I do, but

During the mid-1500s the Venetian arsenal developed a system for mass production of warships, and could produce nearly one ship a day with standardized parts on a sequential, production-line basis.