Plans are things that
Plans are things that change. Fujio Cho
Fujio Cho
Many good American companies
Many good American companies have respect for individuals, and practice Kaizen and other TPS {Toyota Production System} tools. But what is important is having all of the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner–not in spurts–in a concrete way on the shop floor. Fujio Cho
Go see, ask why,
Go see, ask why, show respect. Fujio Cho
We place the highest
We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn’t understand and therefore, we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action, try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures … Read more
First we build people,
First we build people, then we build cars. Fujio Cho
Environmentally friendly cars will
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option…they will become a necessity. Fujio Cho
We get brilliant results
We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes Fujio Cho