For Further Reading 

TOYOTA WAY SERIES AND OTHER LIKER BOOKS

Eduardo Lander, Jeffrey Liker, and Tom Root, Lean in a High-Variety Business: A Graphic Novel About Lean and People at Zingerman’s Mail Order (New York: Productivity Press, 2020).

Jeffrey Liker (ed.), Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers (New York: Productivity Press, 1997).

Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis, The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011).

Jeffrey Liker and James Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011).

Jeffrey Liker and Michael Hoseus, Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008).

Jeffrey Liker and David Meier, The Toyota Way Fieldbook (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006).

Jeffrey Liker and David Meier, Toyota Talent: Developing People the Toyota Way (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007).

Jeffrey Liker with Timothy Ogden, Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011).

Jeffrey Liker and Karyn Ross, The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2016).

J. K. Franz and Jeffrey Liker, Trenches: A Lean Transformation Novel (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016).

James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker, The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and Technology (New York: Productivity Press, 2006).

James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker, Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and Other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform Their Business (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2018).

TOYOTA KATA BOOKS

Mike Rother, Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009).

Mike Rother, Toyota Kata Culture: Building Organizational Capability and Mindset Through Kata Coaching (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2017).

Mike Rother, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2017).

SELECTED LEAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE BOOKS

Freddy Ballé and Michael Ballé, The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround (Boston: Lean Enterprise Institute, 2005).

Pascal Dennis, Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader’s Guide to Planning and Execution (Boston: Lean Enterprise Institute, 2006).

Karen Gaudet, Steady Work (Boston: Lean Enterprise Institute, 2020).

Mike Rother and John Shook, Learning to See: Value-Stream Mapping to Create Value and Eliminate Muda (Boston: Lean Enterprise Institute, 2000).

John Shook, Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead (Boston: Lean Enterprise Institute, 2008).

Art Smalley, Four Types of Problems: From Reactive Trouble Shooting to Creative Innovation (Boston: Lean Enterprise Institute, 2018).

OTHER BOOKS

Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don’t (New York: HarperBusiness, 2001).

Charles Duhig, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (New York: Random House, 2012).

Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007).

Takahiro Fujimoto, The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Seattle, WA: Pear Press, 2014).

Yashuhiro Monden, Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach, 4th ed. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012).

Taiichi Ohno, Workplace Management (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012).

Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production (New York: Productivity Press, 2019).

Richard Sheridan, Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love (New York: Portfolio, 2015).

Shigeo Shingo and Andrew P. Dillon, A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2019).

Durward Sobek II and Art Smalley, Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota’s PDCA Management System (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2008).

Steven Spear, The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010).

James Womack and Dan Jones, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation (New York: Free Press, 2003).

James Womack, Dan Jones, and Dan Roos, The Machine That Changed the World (New York: Free Press, 2007).

Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (New York: Ecco, 2015).