People who know me kid me about my obsessive focus on culture and MAP, but I’m in good company.

Toyota is a company whose “…corporate culture has transformed it from a small manufacturer into a market-gobbling giant famous for quality circles and giving workers control over production lines.”

Of course, it’s not the only one, but it goes further than most, and faces more difficult challenges, while disseminating its culture, known as The Toyota Way.

Take the idea of a public graphic tracking each individual’s success/failure on their work targets with the goal of each person helping anyone who’s stuck.

“For Americans and anyone, it can be a shock to the system to be actually expected to make problems visible,” said Ms. Newton…who joined Toyota after college 15 years ago and now works at the North American headquarters in Erlanger, Ky. “Other corporate environments tend to hide problems from bosses.”

There are many more examples in the article that not only make it a good read, but also offer insight on what makes a company great and how to keep it so in the future.

With a little imagination, most can be translated for use in any size company, anywhere in the world.

All it takes is an obsessive focus on culture and MAP.

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