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Kata and Lean
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This short blue book is our go-to gateway book on Toyota Kata

What is Bringing Scientific Thinking to Life?

100

Rich Sheridan's first book has this short title

What is Joy Inc?

100

Is like a giant A3

What is the storyboard?

200

This orange book has examples of how to link kata challenges in an organization

What is The Toyota Kata Culture book?

200

Mark Rosenthal has a whole folder of resources about this former submarine captain's work in culture change and language

Who is David Marquet?

200

This box of the A3 is not used by Kata practitioners who prefer to experiment their way forward

What is the Action Plan?

300

In the book Sources of Power by Gary Klein, the author suggests  How People Make these

What are decisions?

300

If you ask how things work at Toyota, Mark Rosenthal is sure to recommend this book by John Shook

What is Managing to Learn?

300

Kata practitioners prefer using this word instead of the word "problem"

What is "obstacle"?

400

This book by A former FBI Hostage Negotiator suggests you never do this

What is Split the Difference?

400

Steven Spear's PHD research is summarized in the oft-cited Harvard Business Review article

What is Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System?

400

The Toyota Kata research view most Lean tools not as solutions, but as pattern of work to strive for, in other words as this

What are Target Conditions?

500

In the first edition of the Toyota Kata Practice Guide, this kata geek is thanked twice!

Who is Mark Rosenthal?

500

These Kata Together participants are all thanked by Mike Rother in the Acknowledgements of the Toyota Kata Practice Guide

Who are Betty, Sylvain, Tilo and Tracy?

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How Baptist Health Care name their Kaizen Events run Kata Style

What is Get Better Jump Start?