A leader earning $19,000 a year can't focus enough to learn or execute well. Toyota's production system fails without this foundation. The company's real edge isn't the system itself, it's the belief that people appreciate over time, not depreciate.
Now, if you're getting paid $19,000 a year and you can't put food on the table, how can you be an employee who have the skills, the focus on the job to be able to do a good job? If you work multiple jobs and you can't sleep, how can you execute? How can you do a good job? And without that foundation, Toyota Production System doesn't work. But so many of us, you know, who talk about Toyota, so many leaders who implement Toyota Production System fail to realize that 3 important elements and, and do all the other things that can't work without that foundation. And for Toyota, if you look at their philosophy, people are not a cost to be minimized. They are the only asset that appreciates over time. Respect for people is such a core principle inside the Toyota Production System that I wish more people talked about.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
