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Is it Five O’Clock Yet?

1 August, 2014 by James Lawther 2 Comments

5 o clock

It’s Friday.  The weekend is nearly upon us, be honest, work is not uppermost on your mind at this precise moment in time. So to help you slide into the weekend here are 5 articles you really should read.  Think of it as management education…  Not wasting your time surfing the web. 1.  Can Japanese […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: blame, leadership, management style, motivation, performance management, targets, Toyota, wasted intellect

Innovation Constraints and Lateral Thinking

29 September, 2012 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Innovation Constraints

In the third world, 4 million children die every year within a month of birth. It’s an avoidable tragedy If half of those children were simply kept warm and clean they would survive. In the developed world we have incubators that do exactly that.  I spent the first week of my life in one.  And […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bitching and moaning, bottleneck, constraints, innovation, Toyota

Are you a Manager or a Couch Potato?

24 June, 2012 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Couch Potato

couch po·ta·to Noun:  A person who spends little or no time exercising and a great deal of time watching television. What can you learn in the Midlands? I live in the Midlands, We make cars in the Midlands. A while back I thought I’d go and have a look, see what I could learn from […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: accountability, fessing up, manufacturing, Toyota

Smoking Public Relations

27 August, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Toyota have recently been lambasted for faulty floor mats and sticking accelerator pedals, resulting in a multi billion pound recall. Ferrari on the other hand have had ten of their super cars burst into flames and a representative told Just Auto “It is important to differentiate between what is a vehicle fire and outside factors […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: accountability, customer focus, public relations, Toyota, video

Would You Work For Toyota?

10 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Toyota has recalled several million vehicles over the past month and halted production and sales of 8 models.  The media is in a frenzy, lambasting the company that was widely regarded as a quality leader, we love to see giants fall. I wonder how it feels to work for Toyota at the moment.  Are employees […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: purpose, reinforcing behaviour, Toyota, video

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