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    The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
    The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
    The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
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    The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry

    Written by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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    The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.

    When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.

    Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean production would eventually triumph. Indeed, they argued that it would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating activity from health care to retail to distribution.

    Today The Machine That Changed the World provides enduring and essential guidance to managers and leaders in every industry seeking to transform traditional enterprises into exemplars of lean success.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781508256830
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    James P. Womack

    James P. Womack is the president and founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute (www.lean.org), a nonprofit education and research organization based in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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    • 4/5
      The book was very detailed about 3 types of production in the world and how 1 (Lean) is superior to the other 2 (Mass and Craft). The book also points out some of Lean Manufacturing weaknesses. I don't really like the reader. His voice is like Christian Bale in Batman. Somebody give him a glass of water.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting book about lean and how Toyota changed the industry. Great narrator.
    • 4/5
      Great book for anyone wanting to learn the history and evolution of the car world and basics of lean in this industry.
    • 5/5
      A fundamental book for the history of business. Now and for the future.