Toyota Kata Culture: Building Organizational Capability and Mindset through Kata Coaching

Though I feel you could approach this in many ways, for example, kata your kata approach . I think Mike Rother and Gerd Aulinger did a great job at outlining a good concept people can follow to spread the method. Where I work, we focus a lot on developing peoples kata capability. This book is really about what happens next once your people are kata capable. Outstanding Work!

An excellent yet practical guide to changing the corporate or organizational culture through Kata. The Kata "cookbook" includes planning, executing and growing the Kata culture throughout your organization. Spiral bound, easy to ready, profusely illustrated, this one's a keeper for all Kata Geeks.

I’ve done quite a bit of reading on Kata and was hoping for this to give me additional information. It was more of a review of what I already knew. Honestly there isn’t much reading here, most pages are images. I finished it halfway through a short flight. This could be a great intro if you are new to kata.

If you can't explain it clearly, your really don't understand it. I read through the book fairly quickly, and feel I now have a decent understanding of the Kata's in action, thanks to Mr. Rother's thorough knowledge.

I read this book and stopped after a few pages. It’s too technical and boring. You need to have a compartmental mind to understand the Japanese way or working.

Anything and everything by Mike Rother is great for learning and experimenting for improvements in any business!Learn how to work with and have your greatest asset, your people use their creativity to experiment and improve.

Great discussion of the culural necessities of Toyota Kata...this was a great follow-on after participating in the University of Michigan's 3-day Kata Training

Great book on a creating a culture with a scientific mindset!

I am a big fan of learning organisations and agile thinking, yet I value lessons from the past and like to understand what led to some common structural organizations.The Toyota Kata Culture book looked very appealing to me as a certified project manager and agile coach. It highlights some interesting ideas about how to establish a continuously learning organization.However, the ~140 pages could have been summarized in probably no more than 30-40 pages due to the amount of repetition and details. The book also insists on how the process implies changing the company culture, but it gives little to no guidance on how to achieve this culture change. And finally it describes the method in a strictly hierarchical way that feels more akin to a 1980s command-and-control organization than a modern, safe-to-learn, cooperative organization (how do you think your team will react when you give them the non-negotiable challenge of improving their output 16x, like the daily changeover mentioned on page 34?).Besides the content, the spiral bound version (which I thought would be more appropriate for the book format) feels somewhat fragile and has an inconvenient format, yet brings no real benefit, for twice the price.Overall, this was an expensive proposition with little value. Hint: save your money and do a quick search on the Internet for improvement kata.

This is honestly a guide book for those who realize how important culture - the right culture is - for any company committed to be a leader and winner,. It is for those who have begun to transform their thinking and operations with Toyota KATA - this is the book they are waiting for to guide them into building a corporate culture that will ensure the sustainability which is determining the leaders - not just in manufacturing, but where they understand how important it is to bring People Processes and Technology together I a culture focusing on their customers and the quality of their people. I have it now and have placed it on my shelf beside Mike Rother's earlier KATA book "Toyota KATA" - which provides the building blocks for this one. Great credit goes to Mike Rother!

Amplía un poco el Toyota Kata. Aunque no ofrece nuevos conceptos. La forma de estructurarlo quizás tampoco es la idónea. Aún así, si te interesa este tema es un must.

I am so pleased that Rother and Aulinger have put this book together. As a "Kata Geek" or a "Kata Greek", I have been using Mike's method of coaching and developing others for the past 3 years. My students love it because it's simple to understand, and when applied properly it becomes a competitive weapon of choice for Toyota followers. Way to go!