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Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired.
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Drawing on their access to Toyota facilities and documents and on interviews, Osono and two colleagues (Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi U., Japan) analyze how the Toyota Production System, despite its contradictory nature, has driven the success of the world's #1 automaker. They conclude that this organizational model is successful because it reflects the paradoxes of everyday life: e.g., moving gradually yet taking revolutionary leaps, being frugal yet investing heavily in key areas, allowing employee dissent within its bureaucratic structure. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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