Comments on: Toyota

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:35:02 +0000

Toyota has been vindicated form throttle sticking problems by third party (NHTSA) verification. Aside from dealerships installing the wrong place mats in the wrong cars It has been found that driver error caused the accidents. DOT also looked into the mater and determined in testing vehicles that the brakes were never applied in the crash findings and also found that applying the brakes would slow the car in in the event of pressing the accelerator to the floor. Also computer scientist looked through the thousands of lines of code in the engine management computer and found that no amount of how much electrical interference could cause the “electrical problem” to influence the gas pedal and acceleration problem.
It is a shame that driver stupidity and lack of self responsibility when behind the wheel got pinned on Toyota. Too bad the Toyota company had to take the hit from it’s customers and got thrown under the bus.

SCORE: TOYOTA – 3, POOR DRIVING SKILLS – 0

By: Models & Moguls

Models & Moguls — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:55:53 +0000

A valid principle is eternal and transcends today’s ‘news’.

Within less then a year, as dire as Toyota’s most recent ‘failures’ have been, they will be practically erased from public consciousness.

Not due to any fantastic PR on Toyota’s part…just due to the public’s short attention span.

We like to focus on the mistakes of others, mostly to redeem our own insecurities.

Yet we are really reinforcing those insecurities and inhibiting our own positive development;stifling our own potential to take risks, fail, adapt and become successful.

By: djcoyle

djcoyle — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:23:18 +0000

Right. It hasn’t been pretty, has it?
I wonder how they’re going to respond in deeper ways (beyond the PR part of this). I’ve heard some interesting predictions that this is going to make them stronger in the long run — which seems frankly doubtful now. But no matter how you cut it, it’s one heck of a test.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:57:42 +0000

I love your point of view and book, however Toyota may not be the company of current that you want to point out as being talented and dedicated to improvement. Although it may be true, there public relations nightmare doesn’t support that.

By: Funny Business: How The Onion is like Toyota « The Talent Code

Funny Business: How The Onion is like Toyota « The Talent Code — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:44 +0000

[...] Toyota operates on the philosophy of kaizen, or incremental improvement. At Toyota, each person learns the company’s cultural langage by rote. Each participates in the improvement process, pointing out errors and recommending solutions, then triangulating toward a better system, step by step. For example: at the company’s Georgetown, KY, plant, the convertible top to the Camry formerly took 30 minutes to install; after a kaizen process — making perhaps a hundred tiny fixes and improvements — it takes only eight minutes. And it’s not just about efficiency — kaizen frequently results in new, creative solutions. Each assembly line makes thousands of such changes a year; they add up to create something beautiful. [...]