The February 27th, 2012 issue of Fortune Magazine did a special on Toyota and the grandson of the founder of Toyota, Akio Toyoda. The University of Michigan's Jeffrey Liker, a leading Toyota scholar, told me, "Akio has reenergized the company. He's promised to be the closest president ever to the gemba [where the real work […]

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A great story came out in Fortune magazine recently about the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda.  Akio is an amazing person with a well-rounded education. He went to college in Boston! The article asserts that there is a leadership vacuum in the industry and that Toyoda “is ideally positioned to provide the industry with some […]

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It happened yesterday at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Calif., and Toyota’s Georgetown, Ky., plant, where Toyota’s global president, Akio Toyoda, drove the first all-new reinvented 2012 Camry off the assembly line. Watch the video below and let us know what you think!

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