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Unlocking Toyota's Winning Formula | Alan Weir | Belfast Roots to Global Success
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Contenido proporcionado por Matthew Thompson. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente Matthew Thompson o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.player.fm/legal.
Alan Weir is a top leader at Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- His first job in Belfast Zoo Amusement park as a kid
- Working in a seatbelt factory
- Leaving home
- Managing a team of 40 English men in his early-twenties
- (And the leadership lessons he learned as a result)
- The powerful culture Toyota have created
- Experiencing Japan for the first time
- How a car comes of the line every 86 seconds at his factory
- (And the business principles that make that possible!)
- Ways he switches off from work
- And advice he'd give to an 18-year-old version of himself.
Check it out!
https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/alan-weir-toyota-uk
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Manage episode 404529842 series 2849819
Contenido proporcionado por Matthew Thompson. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente Matthew Thompson o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.player.fm/legal.
Alan Weir is a top leader at Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- His first job in Belfast Zoo Amusement park as a kid
- Working in a seatbelt factory
- Leaving home
- Managing a team of 40 English men in his early-twenties
- (And the leadership lessons he learned as a result)
- The powerful culture Toyota have created
- Experiencing Japan for the first time
- How a car comes of the line every 86 seconds at his factory
- (And the business principles that make that possible!)
- Ways he switches off from work
- And advice he'd give to an 18-year-old version of himself.
Check it out!
https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/alan-weir-toyota-uk
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