Your hands-on guide to the secrets of Toyota's success! Jeffrey Liker first revealed the management principles Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality & reliability in the international bestseller The Toyota Way Now he & Toyota veteran David Meier take those lessons a step further with The Toyota Way Fieldbook You'll receive the diagnostic tools worksheets & exercises
- many adapted from Toyota originals
- so you can craft the most effective approach for your organization Learn how to develop a long-term philosophy of cost reduction build a culture that stops to fix problems quickly develop leaders that live your system & transform your company into a true lean learning organization that continuously improves meets the needs of its customers & positions itself for long-term success Most importantly you'll understand the thinking behind lean tools & approaches so you can implement Toyota's 4P Model for success in your organization Philosophy
- the company is a vehicle for adding value to customers society the community & its associates; Process
- when leaders follow the right process they get the right results including long-term cost-reduction & quality improvement; People & Partners
- add value to an organization by challenging its people & partners to grow & become more skilled & confident; & Problem solving
- continuously solve root problems to drive organizational learning





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How to speed up business processes improve quality & cut costs in any industry In factories around the world Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer while using fewer man-hours less on-hand inventory & half the floor space of its competitors The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles & business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality & reliability Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by Eliminating wasted time & resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a quality control inspector ...

The definitive visual history of the tractor The complete history of farm machinery from steam & vintage tractors to the latest combine harvesters is showcased in this lavishly illustrated volume Packed with images & tractor data on more than 200 iconic machines The Tractor Book explores the entire range of tractors & farming machines from around the world such as Fordson Model F & Massey-Harris GP Histories of famous marques such as John Deere & Massey Ferguson sit alongside immersive visual tours of celebrated machines The Tractor Book covers how tractors work their history major marques & catalogues tractors from every era making this a must-have for anyone fascinated by these extraordinary machines ...

'I'm Tracy Beaker This is a book all about me I'd read it if I were you It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story Honest' Ten-year-old Tracy is one of the most popular & well-loved children's book characters ever created She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day with a real family Meet feisty funny Tracy follow her adventures & share her hopes for the future in these three beautifully observed hilarious & touching tales all told in Tracy's own words Featuring THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKERSTARRING TRACY BEAKERand THE DARE GAMEPlus an exclusive letter from Jacqueline Wilson about how Tracy was created! ...

The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century Can China rise peacefully? In clear eloquent prose John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no a rising China will seek to dominate Asia while the United States determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable ...

Dark & violent Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies Indeed for 250 years
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Shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize & the Shine Strong Award) Tara Bergin returns with her second collection The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx The poems draw on folksong fairytale & theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring & sometimes tragic consequences of translation When she committed suicide in 1898 Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx pioneering sociologist & translator of Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine Emma Both women in their own ways died passionate deaths & Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love intense grief With a sing-song rhythm & dark humour they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers great writers & great readers who like the fancy-dressed children in ' Mask' are both 'themselves & strangers' ' That's all they wanted' ...

From the first steam trains to the high-speed bullet locomotives of today this is a glorious celebration of the history of trains & railways Take a look around the engines of some of the most well-known locomotives in British history such as the Rocket the Mallard & the Javelin along with famous international trains such as India's Palace on Wheels & America's Thatcher Perkins Trace the routes of the most important rail routes in history from the continent-spanning Union-Pacific Railroad & Trans-Siberian Railway to the routes of iconic locomotives such as the Orient Express the Blue Train & the Eurostar & discover the stories of the pioneers of train & track
- including George & Robert Stephenson; Isambard Kingdom Brunel creator of the Great Western Railway; & Fulgence Bienvenue designer of the Paris Metro Rounded out by comprehensive photographic catalogues of the most important trains from each period The Train Book is the perfect gift for any train enthusiast
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Inspired by a true incident during World War II in & The Train& Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance fighter doggedly attempting to stop a train used by the Nazis (led by Paul Scofield as Colonel Von Waldheim) to steal precious French art treasures in the summer of 1944 Featuring spectacular action sequences expertly directed by John Frankenheimer & The Train& is a truly thrilling war film The Oscar-nominated screenplay by Franklin Coen & Frank Davis superbly recreates the tension of this heroic episode Actors Burt Lancaster Paul Scofield Jeanne Moreau Suzanne Flon Michel Simon & Wolfgang Preiss Director John Frankenheimer Certificate PGYear 1964 Screen Widescreen 1661 Languages English ; French ; German
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; French ; German for the hearing impaired ; Greek ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Swedish Duration 2 hours & 6 minutes (approx)
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The Train Giant is an exciting mixture of city building & traffic management simulation As CEO of a train company the player has to operate positively by erecting businesses & expanding the railway network Through the expansion of freight & passenger traffic more & more Companies will become customers In this way a small town will change into a prosperous city The player has to manage all the details from the timetable to the expansion of the rail network to be a railway superstar Sophisticated ecological system with many details Over 50 carefully modelled trains 30 maps & city layouts 120 different types of buildings Well known buildings

Includes:: the Eiffel Tower Big Ben & the Empire State Building Stock-market with 120 companies Day & night phases Extensive in game-help Plenty of management features

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