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The Essential Harada Method Guide: Self-Reliance and The Human Side of Lean
The Harada Method takes lessons from highly successful, field-tested athletics programs and applies them to your life both on and off the job. I believe we all love a winner, but most of us have not been taught how to become one. In this book, we give you the steps to follow to transform yourself, and to create a new and very exciting life. There are many success teachers in the world who have written bestselling Stephen R. Covey, Malcolm Gladwell, Jack Caldwell, and others, but in my opinion only Takashi Harada really gives you a step-by-step exact method to follow support your organization's goals, to reach your goals and your personal success. This book is about that method. If you follow the Harada Method you will find your personal and professional success. Let s get started now, looking at what the Harada Method is and how you and your employees can get started learning the steps right away.
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First published November 19, 2014
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About the author
Norman Bodek
28 books8 followersThey Always Said, “He Will Never, Ever Make it!”
In fact, if you go to my ninth grade yearbook, you will read under my name, “Norman Bodek the most likely person to get a head for he needs one!” I read only three books before I graduated from high school and yet miraculously, as I progressed through life, I was able to publish over 250 books and write seven more. I mention this to help you realize your potential - just think what you are capable of doing if someone with my weaknesses has been able to do things so far beyond his early dreams. Your only limitation is yo12urself!
It has been an amazing journey. In 1979, after 18 years working with data processing companies, I started Productivity Inc. - Press by publishing a newsletter called PRODUCTIVITY. At the time, I knew virtually nothing about the subject and had spent very little time in manufacturing facilities, but I quickly became engrossed with the subject and went to Japan to discover the processes that were making them the world leaders in quality improvement and productivity growth.
These past 36 years, I have visited Japan 85 times, visited over 250 plants and published over 100 Japanese management books in English (250 books in total), all without originally knowing a single person in Japan or speaking their language. Fortunately, serendipitously, I met many management masters in Japan and in America and discovered amazing tools, techniques and new thoughts that have revolutionized the world of manufacturing. I published the works of Dr. Shigeo Shingo, Dr. Joji Akao, Taiichi Ohno, Dr. Ryuji Fukuda, Taiichi Ohno, Seiichi Nakajima, Henry Ford, Shigeru Mizuno, Hiroyuki Hirano, and many other books on world-class manufacturing and total quality management.
Each person I met gave me a new perspective on continuous improvement. Through the books we brought to America and the West the Toyota Production System, SMED, CEDAC, quality control circles, 5S, visual factory, TPM, VSM, Kaizen Blitz, cell design, Poka-yoke, Lean accounting, Andon, Hoshin Kanri, Kanban, and Quick and Easy Kaizen.
My most powerful discovery was finding how Toyota, Canon and other Japanese companies brought out the infinite creative potential lying dormant inside every worker. When you unlock this hidden talent, people become highly motivated and actually love to come to work. One client, Gulfstream Corporation, the private jet company, where 1000 people went from coming up with 16 implemented ideas in February 2005 to over 40,000. The ideas saved the company over $10,000,000 and gave the employees a new sense of pride in their work and in their lives.
My latest discovery, the Harada Method, is a proven way for people to pick goals for personal success, create detailed career and life plans to attain those goals, daily monitor themselves, work with a coach while helping their organizations improve their performance.
Education: University of Wisconsin, New York University (BA), New York University Graduate School of Business, and New York University College of Education
Instructor: At many conferences throughout the world and adjunct professor of management at Portland State University
Observer: 2015 at TVS Motor Company in Bangalore, India.
Recipient of The Shingo Prize* for Manufacturing Excellence, received the Six Sigma Global Grand medal from ICBUPR, and inducted into Industry Week’s Manufacturing Hall of Fame. Called “Mr. Lean” in Quality Progress Magazine.
Professional Career: Public Accountant and Insurance broker, started Productivity Inc. & Productivity Press with offices in Norwalk, Connecticut and Portland, Oregon, currently president of PCS Inc.
Study missions to Japan, led around 35 missions visiting 250 manufacturing plants.
Books Published: Over 250 management books, over 100 Japanese books.
Current: Certify instructors in Harada Method
Books written: The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen, co-authored with Bunji Tozawa
In fact, if you go to my ninth grade yearbook, you will read under my name, “Norman Bodek the most likely person to get a head for he needs one!” I read only three books before I graduated from high school and yet miraculously, as I progressed through life, I was able to publish over 250 books and write seven more. I mention this to help you realize your potential - just think what you are capable of doing if someone with my weaknesses has been able to do things so far beyond his early dreams. Your only limitation is yo12urself!
It has been an amazing journey. In 1979, after 18 years working with data processing companies, I started Productivity Inc. - Press by publishing a newsletter called PRODUCTIVITY. At the time, I knew virtually nothing about the subject and had spent very little time in manufacturing facilities, but I quickly became engrossed with the subject and went to Japan to discover the processes that were making them the world leaders in quality improvement and productivity growth.
These past 36 years, I have visited Japan 85 times, visited over 250 plants and published over 100 Japanese management books in English (250 books in total), all without originally knowing a single person in Japan or speaking their language. Fortunately, serendipitously, I met many management masters in Japan and in America and discovered amazing tools, techniques and new thoughts that have revolutionized the world of manufacturing. I published the works of Dr. Shigeo Shingo, Dr. Joji Akao, Taiichi Ohno, Dr. Ryuji Fukuda, Taiichi Ohno, Seiichi Nakajima, Henry Ford, Shigeru Mizuno, Hiroyuki Hirano, and many other books on world-class manufacturing and total quality management.
Each person I met gave me a new perspective on continuous improvement. Through the books we brought to America and the West the Toyota Production System, SMED, CEDAC, quality control circles, 5S, visual factory, TPM, VSM, Kaizen Blitz, cell design, Poka-yoke, Lean accounting, Andon, Hoshin Kanri, Kanban, and Quick and Easy Kaizen.
My most powerful discovery was finding how Toyota, Canon and other Japanese companies brought out the infinite creative potential lying dormant inside every worker. When you unlock this hidden talent, people become highly motivated and actually love to come to work. One client, Gulfstream Corporation, the private jet company, where 1000 people went from coming up with 16 implemented ideas in February 2005 to over 40,000. The ideas saved the company over $10,000,000 and gave the employees a new sense of pride in their work and in their lives.
My latest discovery, the Harada Method, is a proven way for people to pick goals for personal success, create detailed career and life plans to attain those goals, daily monitor themselves, work with a coach while helping their organizations improve their performance.
Education: University of Wisconsin, New York University (BA), New York University Graduate School of Business, and New York University College of Education
Instructor: At many conferences throughout the world and adjunct professor of management at Portland State University
Observer: 2015 at TVS Motor Company in Bangalore, India.
Recipient of The Shingo Prize* for Manufacturing Excellence, received the Six Sigma Global Grand medal from ICBUPR, and inducted into Industry Week’s Manufacturing Hall of Fame. Called “Mr. Lean” in Quality Progress Magazine.
Professional Career: Public Accountant and Insurance broker, started Productivity Inc. & Productivity Press with offices in Norwalk, Connecticut and Portland, Oregon, currently president of PCS Inc.
Study missions to Japan, led around 35 missions visiting 250 manufacturing plants.
Books Published: Over 250 management books, over 100 Japanese books.
Current: Certify instructors in Harada Method
Books written: The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen, co-authored with Bunji Tozawa
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June 11, 2018
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You want to integrate the HARADA way of selfmanaging, get this book and start implementing. After Stephen Covey, David Allen ... the next reas is this book.
You want to integrate the HARADA way of selfmanaging, get this book and start implementing. After Stephen Covey, David Allen ... the next reas is this book.
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