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May 27, 2006
Lessons From Visit to Toyota’s Kentucky Plant

Construction Executive Lessons from the Toyota Visit by Hal Macomber including:

Stopping to fix the problem - jidoka - could lead to far fewer quality problems.

Establish standard work - the currently understood best way - for key project operations.

As leaders, involve yourself to ease the work of the project team members rather than operating in the illusion that you can control.

via: Constrution Executives Visit Toyota, Learn Kaizen

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