Creating a Culture of Leadership

Dr. Dallas J. Blankenship

Thursday, May 15, 2008

12pm Pacific, 1pm Mountain, 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern

http://www.cqpo.org/
http://www.scott.kyschools.us/

Slides (portion of the presentation)

 SIGAdmin_Webinar_May_08_first6.ppt

Add your follow-up question here!

From Jason: How does the philosophy of keeping personnel deal with under or non-performing staff?
From Larry: Your success story is quite impressive. But, since Toyota is building a new plant in our vicinity (Tupelo, MS), can you speak to the SEQUENCE you followed in achieving your goals? How did you begin, in order to acclimate your communities to adopt the Toyota Culture?
From Gordon: Dr. Blankenship, can you tell us more about invitational education? How do staff foster this among students?
From Betsy: How do you see parents fitting into this process.
From Gordon: Is the language used by staff with students so students start understanding the intent and the long term benefit for the students to understand this?
From Steve: What did WOW stand for in principle 6? (Working on the Work) :-)
From Larry: To what extent is the Scott County Way being infused in higher ed administrator training programs?
From Dan: (for Dallas) Where there any “painful” lessons learned in Scott County Schools that you wish you had known about before moving your district towards this “new”culture?
From Larry Anderson: What lessons (and directions for future practice) can ISTE, in general, and SIGAdmin, in particular, learn from this presentation? Is the "Toyota Culture" just an interesting idea, or are there some aspects that we need to employ so that we sharpen our effectiveness?
From Larry Anderson: Is there a study manual (or something similar) that accompanies the book...that educators could use to engage in continuous improvement? How do Scott County educators stay focused on the core concepts, if not via some kind of study manual?
For Larry Anderson from Peggy George: I purchased The Toyota Culture and Toyota Talent books right after the session from Amazon and they have already arrived but I haven't read them yet. I noticed when I purchased them that there is a Field Book to accompany Toyota Way (earlier version of Toyota Culture which was published in 2003). The reviews were mixed about it.
http://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Fieldbook-Jeffrey-Liker/dp/0071448934/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
While Jeffrey Liker's book The Toyota Way was an examination of the 14 Principles of the Toyota Way, it was not an explicit "how to" guide at a tactical level. This follow up book is intended as the more practical guide to Becoming Lean (to borrow the title of an earlier book written by Liker). The Fieldbook is organized in the framework of Toyota's 4 P's:

"What are the weaknesses? What's missing?
While this is clearly a field book in its application focus, it is less clear how it is connected to companion book, The Toyota Way. The 14 principles of that book are mentioned briefly but are not integrated into this book. The Fieldbook has value as a standalone volume, but those looking for a specific companion to The Toyota Way will be disappointed."
When I started reading the fieldbook, I was highly disappointed. The first 200 pages basically just explained the basic lean tools. It's good if you do not know them, but I felt that the book didn't add anything to the existing lean literature.