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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.