Improvement is eternal and infinite; build a system where every person, every day, surfaces problems and makes things a little better

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production · Taiichi Ohno

Ask why five times to penetrate from symptoms to root causes, turning every problem into a permanent improvement

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production · Taiichi Ohno

Use simple visual signals attached to goods to pull production through the system, making overproduction impossible and waste visible

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production · Taiichi Ohno

Eliminate waste by making work flow one piece at a time

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer · Jeffrey K. Liker

Philosophy, Process, People, and Problem Solving as layers of excellence

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer · Jeffrey K. Liker

Align philosophy, principles, methods, and tools into one coherent system

The Toyota Production System Journey: The Continuously Changing Features of TPS and Lean Thinking · Noboru Takeuchi

Let downstream demand control upstream production through visual signals

The Toyota Production System Journey: The Continuously Changing Features of TPS and Lean Thinking · Noboru Takeuchi

Claim time for what matters before urgent demands consume it all

Four Thousand Weeks · Oliver Burkeman

Control your workload by pulling tasks instead of having them pushed

Slow Productivity · Cal Newport

Evolve processes so complex and tacit that competitors cannot replicate them in time

7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer