Books

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	Coming November 2010 Implementing TWI: Creating and Managing a Skills Based Culture, Patrick Graupp and Robert J. Wrona, Productivity Press, 2010 This unique book describes the experiences of a multitude of companies both large and small in various industries, using TWI today, more than 60 years after the creation of these powerful programs. In spite of our understanding of the program and its ability to generate results, getting the TWI skills implanted in an organization takes great planning and effort. The authors of the TWI Workbook, using their experience over the last seven years implanting TWI in companies across the U.S. and around the world will describe critical elements and point out key stumbling blocks to a successful TWI implementation. These case studies will describe how a company can attain the full promise of TWI.
	The Toyota Way Fieldbook: A Practical Guide for Implementing Toyota’s 4Ps, Jeffrey K. Liker and David Meier, The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006 The authors state their book is an attempt to clarify the thought process used by Toyota and how those ideas are applied and used to create the tremendous success Toyota has achieved” and the critical role TWI has in the area of employee training since 1951.
	Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way, Jeffrey K. Liker and David P. Meier, McGraw-Hill, 2007 This book walks you through the methodology used by Toyota to grow high-performance individuals from within with a focus on TWI Job Instruction Training.
	Toyota Culture, Jeffrey K. Liker and Michael Hoseus, McGraw-Hill, 2008. The authors provide an inside story on creating and maintaining a people-centric culture that sustains consistent growth, innovation, profitability, and excellence.
	The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors, Patrick Graupp and Robert J. Wrona, Productivity Press, 2006. Written in a practical, easy-to-understand style that is directed at first-line supervisors with a strong focus on getting them to learn how to put the TWI methods into use.
	Today and Tomorrow, Henry Ford, Reprint Edition by Productivity Press, 2003 Taachi Ohno freely acknowledges that his close reading of Henry Ford was the key stimulus to his creating the Just-in-Time manufacturing system.
	Leading Change, John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School Press, 1996 Learn why transformation efforts fail and a roadmap for people to talk about transformation, change problems, and change strategies for success.
	Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen, Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern, Barrettt-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1997, 1998 A practical guide to promoting creativity in companies.
	Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success, Masaaki Imai, McGraw-Hill, 1986 The author organizes the management philosophies, theories, and tools that have been developed and used over the years in Japan under the single concept of KAIZEN.
	Gemba Kaizen: A Common Sense, Low-Cost Approach to Management, Masaaki Imai, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1997 How to focus the result-boosting techniques of kaizen in the workplace (Gemba), the place where the products or services are performed.
	Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers, edited by Jeffrey K. Liker, Productivity Press, 2004 CEO’s, consultants and managers provide insight into what it takes to succeed in implementing lean.
	Continuous Improvement in Operations: A Systematic Approach to Waste Reduction, Alan Robinson, Productivity Press, 1991 This book provides the understanding that is essential to effectively organize and implement a journey of continuous improvement.
	How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest Car Company, David Magee, Penguin Group, 2007. The author dug deeply into Toyota’s past and present to uncover the hidden power of Toyota’s deep-seated and unique corporate culture to provide valuable long-term transformational lessons for managers in all disciplines and industries.
	Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and superior Results. Mike Rother, McGraw Hill 2010. The author explains how to improve our prevailing managment approach through the use of two kata: The Improvement Kata - a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and the Coaching Kata - a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure that motivates their ways of thinking and acting.
	The Checklist Manifesto - How to Get Things Right. Atul Gawande, Metropolitan Books 2009. The author writes an easy and persuasive style, bringing the reader along on his journey of discovery. His examples, facts and narrative leave you asking: How can anyone not do what he suggests? But the TWI Institute doesn’t recommend books because they're easy to read and compelling. What do checklists for surgeons have to do with TWI? Substitute the words “ Job Instruction Breakdown” for checklists in many paragraphs of the book and you will see. The parallels are stunning and the principles the same . In addition, as we move TWI back in to healthcare Gawande makes the connections for us between Boeing, construction and other industries and healthcare.