For Further Reading

Throughout this book we have referenced various books that you may want to study more in depth. Here are some suggestions for further reading and investigation:

About Kata

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

Toyota Kata Slideshare site, www.slideshare.net/mike734.

The Toyota Kata website, “How to Develop Scientific Thinking for Everyone by Practicing Kata,” www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/Homepage.html.

Other Toyota Way Series Books

Liker, Jeffrey K., The Toyota Way, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Liker, Jeffrey K., and Gary Convis, The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

Liker, Jeffrey K., and James Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

Liker, Jeffrey K., and Michael Hoseus, Toyota Culture, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.

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

Liker, Jeffrey K., and David Meier, Toyota Talent, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.

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

Liker, Jeffrey K., and George Trachilis, Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide, Winnipeg, MB: Lean Leadership Institute Publications, 2014.

Franz, James, and Jeffrey Liker, Trenches: A Lean Transformation Novel, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.

From the Lean Enterprise Institute

These books are published by the Lean Enterprise Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ballé, Freddy, and Michael Ballé, The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround, 2005.

Ballé, Michael, and Freddy Ballé, Lead with Respect, 2014.

Dennis, Pascal, Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader’s Guide for Planning and Execution, 2006.

Rother, Mike, and John Shook, Learning to See: Value-Steam Mapping to Create Value and Eliminate Muda, 2003.

Shook, John, Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead, 2008.

Toussaint, John, and Roger Gerard, On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry, 2010.

Ward, Allen, and Durward Sobek, Lean Product and Process Development, 2014.

Lean Books from Other Sources

Hoeft, Steven, The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare: Engaging Staff by Building Daily Lean Management Systems, Productivity Press, 2015.

Ohno, Taiichi, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Production, New York: Productivity Inc., 1988.

Solomon, Jerrold M., Who’s Counting? A Lean Accounting Business Novel, Indiana: WCM Associates, 2003.

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

Suzaki, Kiyoshi, Results from the Heart: How Mini-Company Management Captures Everyone’s Talents and Helps Them Find Meaning and Purpose at Work, New York: Free Press, 2002.

Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management, Special 100th Birthday Edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2012.

Womack, James P., and Daniel T. Jones, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Organization, 2nd ed., Free Press, 2003.

Womack, James P., Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos, The Machine That Changed the World, New York: Rawson Associates, 1990.

Nonlean Books for Lean Leaders

Adams, Scott, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, New York: Portfolio, 2014.

Coyle, Daniel, The Talent Code, New York: Bantam Books, 2009.

Deming, W. Edwards, Out of the Crisis, Cambridge, MA: MIT Center for Advanced Educational Services, 1986.

Duhigg, Charles, The Power of Habit, New York: Random House, 2012.

Greenleaf, Robert, The Power of Servant Leadership, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1998.

Hanna, David, The Organizational Survival Code, Mapleton, UT: Hanaoka Pub., 2013.

Johnson, H. Thomas, Profit Beyond Measure, New York: Free Press, 2008.

Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking, Fast and Slow, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Medina, John, Brain Rules, reprint ed., Edmonds, WA: Pear Press, 2009.

Nisbett, Richard, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why, New York: Free Press, 2004.

Pink, Daniel, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, New York: Riverhead Books, 2009.

Senge, Peter, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, New York: Crown Business, 2006.

Sheridan, Richard, Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love, New York: Portfolio Hardcover, 2013.

Wheatley, Margaret J., Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2005.