Kaizen Forever: Teachings of Chihiro Nakao

Chihiro Nakao is one of the few people who learned kaizen directly from Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System, and has spent nearly four decades circling the globe teaching Shingijutsu-kaizen.Kaizen Forever distills six decades of Nakao-san's wisdom into a compact, deeply practical book. It captures Nakao-san's teachings on people, process, equipment, space, money, time, and information — and his methods for breaking the grip of traditional leadership and management thinking that drains companies of profit and human creativity.The expanded Second Edition adds a biographical portrait of Nakao-san, a new chapter with 78 previously unpublished teachings, an appendix of catchphrases, and practical reflection exercises throughout. There is no other book like this one.Whatever your industry, kaizen is not going away. Read this. Then practice kaizen forever. Read more