It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are. Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are. If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something!

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.