The February 27th, 2012 issue of Fortune Magazine did a special on Toyota and the grandson of the founder of Toyota, Akio Toyoda. The University of Michigan's Jeffrey Liker, a leading Toyota scholar, told me, "Akio has reenergized the company. He's promised to be the closest president ever to the gemba [where the real work […]

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A great story came out in Fortune magazine recently about the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda.  Akio is an amazing person with a well-rounded education. He went to college in Boston! The article asserts that there is a leadership vacuum in the industry and that Toyoda “is ideally positioned to provide the industry with some […]

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