{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Chain of Learning: Leadership Strategies for Transforming Culture, Developing People, and Getting Results","title":"82| Connect the Parts, Focus on People: Inside the Toyota Economic System [with Olivier Larue]","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3442,"description":"Profit or cash. Efficiency or flexibility. Speed, or doing it right.\n\nLeaders feel like they have to make trade-offs like these all the time. But the choice often isn't real.\n\nSome contradictions are unavoidable. Others only look that way until you understand the real problem. The most effective organizations realize they don't have to pick a side if they can resolve the underlying tension.\n\nOlivier Larue has spent three decades helping companies do this, which he's documented in his three-book series The Toyota Economic System: a philosophy about people and society, the technical design that turns it into results, and the management practices that keep it alive through continuous learning.\n\nThe real breakthrough is never the tools, optimizing one part of the system, or making unnecessary tradeoffs. It's how every part connects, and understanding the real problem to solve, so people remain the focus and results last.\nYou’ll Learn:\nHow to tell a contradiction that's real from one that only looks real, so you stop choosing between things you can't afford to lose\nWhy an economic lens, not an operational one, changes where you look for the answer\nWhy the number and order of Toyota's seven wastes aren't arbitrary, and why the first one drives how you understand the rest\nWhy declaring people \"empowered\" means nothing without the conditions that let them act on it\nHow respect for people extends to avoiding layoffs even in downturns, and why that matters in a world of AI and supply chain disruptions\n\nABOUT MY GUEST:\n\nOlivier Larue was trained by Toyota Motor Corporation and has spent thirty years helping Fortune 500 companies design and implement industrial manufacturing solutions, including more than a decade as a consultant with TSSC, the Toyota Production System Support Center, and hands-on work in the biopharmaceutical industry. He is the founder and president of Ydatum, and the author of the three-book series The Toyota Economic System.\nIMPORTANT LINKS:\nFull episode...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qYJuLHb2yIPJ-GYlmPbKIGb4yZWoxODifNbGUAjG0No/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ0ODM4LzE2OTg2/OTY3MDEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}