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The Toyota Kata Practice Guide: Practicing Scientific Thinking Skills for Superior Results in 20 Minutes a Day
Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results!
In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list of management concepts, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide walks you through the process of making improvement, adaptation, and even innovation routine behavior.
Designed to help a coach (the manager) and a learner work together for developing new skillsets, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide delivers the information, insight, and frameworks you need
* Form habits that help you solve problems and achieve challenging goals
* Modify the thought patterns that drive your behavior
* Develop an organizational mindset that drives superior results
The Improvement Kata gives learners the means to experiment their way through obstacles and achieve tough goals; the Coaching Kata gives managers the means to accelerate and cement their people's learning.
In the new age of business, increasing efficiency and decreasing costs is no longer the end game. A manager's job today is to develop patterns of thinking and acting in their people that lead to success with any challenge. Consistent, mindful practice is the best way to do it--and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide is the best way to get there.
In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list of management concepts, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide walks you through the process of making improvement, adaptation, and even innovation routine behavior.
Designed to help a coach (the manager) and a learner work together for developing new skillsets, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide delivers the information, insight, and frameworks you need
* Form habits that help you solve problems and achieve challenging goals
* Modify the thought patterns that drive your behavior
* Develop an organizational mindset that drives superior results
The Improvement Kata gives learners the means to experiment their way through obstacles and achieve tough goals; the Coaching Kata gives managers the means to accelerate and cement their people's learning.
In the new age of business, increasing efficiency and decreasing costs is no longer the end game. A manager's job today is to develop patterns of thinking and acting in their people that lead to success with any challenge. Consistent, mindful practice is the best way to do it--and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide is the best way to get there.
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Published October 27, 2017
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July 27, 2020
The Toyota Kata Practice Guide picks up where Toyota Kata ended ten years ago and focuses on the practical aspects of implementing the same scientific thinking pattern in an organization.
In order to do so, it proposes a set of Starter Kata (which are a set of practices to bootstrap each step of the process) for getting familiar and practice the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata
Sadly, Toyota Kata does not deliver on its promise. The content of this book could have been summarized and published in a series of blog posts or LinkedIn articles and saved us time and resources. It is overly repetitive, and if you have already read Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results then you won't learn much else other than seeing the templates people can use to plan, execute and coach experiments.
As things are, Rother already has plenty of free material on the web (see https://www.katatogrow.com/) to teach this stuff yet he doesn't mention any of this on the book which is baffling.
In the end I was left with the impression that this Toyota Kata thing is no more than a glorified version of the GROW coaching model (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/artic...) which apparently has been around since the 1980s!!!
I find it hard to recommend this book. If you have read Toyota Kata then that is all you needed to know. Make us of the free resources online to practice and teaching it otherwise.
In order to do so, it proposes a set of Starter Kata (which are a set of practices to bootstrap each step of the process) for getting familiar and practice the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata
Sadly, Toyota Kata does not deliver on its promise. The content of this book could have been summarized and published in a series of blog posts or LinkedIn articles and saved us time and resources. It is overly repetitive, and if you have already read Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results then you won't learn much else other than seeing the templates people can use to plan, execute and coach experiments.
As things are, Rother already has plenty of free material on the web (see https://www.katatogrow.com/) to teach this stuff yet he doesn't mention any of this on the book which is baffling.
In the end I was left with the impression that this Toyota Kata thing is no more than a glorified version of the GROW coaching model (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/artic...) which apparently has been around since the 1980s!!!
I find it hard to recommend this book. If you have read Toyota Kata then that is all you needed to know. Make us of the free resources online to practice and teaching it otherwise.
April 8, 2022
Skip this and read 4DX
+ Importance of Managers as coach, Motivating top down a scientific thinking by asking the 5 Kata questions, encouraging it as daily practice to develop it as a habit is a take away
- The take away could have been written in one chapter and not a 300 page book. This book does not work as a standalone. May be it complements the author's first book on Kata. Even so, it feels Kata as one another gimmick to squeeze out a bestseller from an over-mystified Toyota.
- There are no case studies, examples. The why, what and how questions are still unclear
- Kata fails to stand out on purpose as in a 4DX for visual lead/lag metric driven goal reaching or a design of experiments or FMEA for process or product design, PDCA in Lean or project management. The application is not clear
I love Mike Rother for coloured book series from Lean enterprise institute which were revolutionary - Learning to see, Create continuous flow
+ Importance of Managers as coach, Motivating top down a scientific thinking by asking the 5 Kata questions, encouraging it as daily practice to develop it as a habit is a take away
- The take away could have been written in one chapter and not a 300 page book. This book does not work as a standalone. May be it complements the author's first book on Kata. Even so, it feels Kata as one another gimmick to squeeze out a bestseller from an over-mystified Toyota.
- There are no case studies, examples. The why, what and how questions are still unclear
- Kata fails to stand out on purpose as in a 4DX for visual lead/lag metric driven goal reaching or a design of experiments or FMEA for process or product design, PDCA in Lean or project management. The application is not clear
I love Mike Rother for coloured book series from Lean enterprise institute which were revolutionary - Learning to see, Create continuous flow
March 12, 2019
Very practical advice on how to apply the Toyota Kata. Plenty of new insights and take-aways for me at least.
March 31, 2021
Good and detailed book that walks you through the whole process of Toyota Kata from learner and coach perspective. For knowledge work, especially software engineering the starter kata section is too manufactoring focussed. Jesper Boegs Level Up book helps greatly there. Without that, it would have been hard for me to grasp how to transition practices over to my world. On the other hand Jespers book lacks an in depth discussion of the coach practices with all their pitfalls. So in the end I probably needed to read both to get a good grasp.
I like the overall idea and for me it fills also a gap where usually Agile falls short (how exactly does continues improvement look like and towards what do we improve). The practices seems sane, well grounded and methodical. I like that.
I'm willing to give this a shot in my work area. Let's see where this might take me/us
I like the overall idea and for me it fills also a gap where usually Agile falls short (how exactly does continues improvement look like and towards what do we improve). The practices seems sane, well grounded and methodical. I like that.
I'm willing to give this a shot in my work area. Let's see where this might take me/us
December 29, 2018
it's a very good book written in a very accesible vocabulary. It gives you hand's on instruction on how to start practicing the schientific thinking aproach that Toyota is doing.
what I didn't like is that scientific thinking is very similar with Agile and Lean and design thinking and at least for me it seemed through the book that is presented as something new.
what I didn't like is that scientific thinking is very similar with Agile and Lean and design thinking and at least for me it seemed through the book that is presented as something new.
November 30, 2019
Es practico, pero con la mitad del libro seria suficiente.
Aveces es mejor acortar
Aveces es mejor acortar
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