Vertical last month released The Toyota Leaders: An Executive Guide
. From the title it sounds as if author Masaaki Satoan has produced an insiders guide, but Vertical's plug about the book is intriguing. The publisher writes that Satoan presents his case that Toyota’s strengths, including efficiency on the floor, cannot be understood or emulated outside the context of tradition—not Japan’s, but Toyota’s own.
. From the title it sounds as if author Masaaki Satoan has produced an insiders guide, but Vertical's plug about the book is intriguing. The publisher writes that Satoan presents his case that Toyota’s strengths, including efficiency on the floor, cannot be understood or emulated outside the context of tradition—not Japan’s, but Toyota’s own.