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10 Principles for Lean Leadership

Executive Leadership

10 Principles for Lean Leadership

April 6, 2021

These ten simple yet powerful leadership principles developed by Isao Yoshino provide wise guidance for any lean practitioner seeking a path of learning and improvement.

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Former Toyota leader Mr. Isao Yoshino has helped develop some essential practices at Toyota and beyond. A member of the four-man team working on the famous “Kan-Pro” initiative at Toyota, A3 coach and mentor to John Shook, and source of the wisdom in Katie Anderson’s popular book Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn, Yoshino has inspired a generation of lean thinkers. When Katie launched her book, she shared a wealth of documents from Mr. Yoshino diving deeper into ways to lead and learn, including the following list of 10 leadership principles that Mr. Yoshino shared on April 18, 1991. Here they are translated from the Japanese:

 

10 Principles for Lean Leadership

 

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