Toyota’s top engineer on how to develop thinking people

Posted on 5 Aug 2008 by The Manufacturer

Jon Miller translates sections of an interview with Nanpachi Hayashi, the man dubbed Toyota's top engineer...

The August 4, 2008 Nikkei Business Online article titled Top Engineer Explains How Toyota Develops People (技術最高職が語る「トヨタはこう人を育てる」). The article is an interview with Nanpachi Hayashi, Toyota’s top engineer. He was a student of Taiichi Ohno, and much what he talks about sounds like it came out of the pages of Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management. The…

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