(Association for Manufacturing Excellence: Rolling Meadows, IL) -- Learn about the historic and cultural roots behind the people-development concepts and principles underlying the Toyota Way at the “Isao Yoshino seminar on lean leadership and the Toyota Way” to be held April 25, 2019, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., at the University of California San Francisco.

Isao Yoshino will lead you through a morning of learning and discussion about the role of leaders and managers in a lean operating environment. Yoshino will share stories from his experiences including:
• Leading the Toyota Management Development Program (Kan-Pro) for all managers in Toyota’s headquarters to learn hoshin kanri and A3 thinking
• Developing John Shook, author of the book, Managing to Learn (Lean Enterprises Institute Inc., 2008), as his first manager in Japan
• Managing the Japan training program for the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) managers to learn the Toyota Way

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