Description: Written by a two-time Shingo Prize award-winning author, this is the first book to analyze Toyota's secret weapons, Toyota Kata: organizational routines that give their employees a means, a pattern, for achieving ambitious targets in the face of unpredictable conditions.
Brief description: Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher, and a guest researcher at the Technical University Dortmund. Rother's work has bought him to numerous companies and hundreds of factories around the world, where he collaborates with people to test ideas and shares lessons learned. He splits his time between Ann Arbor, and Cologne, Germany. Rother has been entered into the Association of Manufacturing Excellence's Hall of Fame.