Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way

An Interesting article from Guy Kawasaki's blog


Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way

Matthew E. May is the author of The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation. He has held a key advisory role with the University of Toyota for over eight years, and he is a graduate of the Wharton School and Johns Hopkins University. You can download a copy of his ChangeThis manifesto by clicking here. In it, he explains—in a truly “inside-the-kimono ” way—the basic lessons of Toyota’s success and how the company creates innovative and elegant solutions. If you like Toyota’s products, you’ll love Matt’s work.
ChangeThis, by the way, has a ton of great stuff. Click here to see what I mean. My Art of the Start manifesto is here.

Slainte

Gordon

My New Year Thoughts 2007

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Some thoughts:

1 - It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to
you
2 - The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare to win
3 - You will get whatever you want in life if you help enough people get
what they want
4 - Invest your time, don't spend it
5 - Whatever you achieve, or fail to achieve, is a direct result of
your own thoughts
6 - Only two letters separate a whine from a win


My very best wishes for a successful and joyous New Year, let the bells ring in a new year and a happy one for you and yours

Slainte

Gordon