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While I endorse and am curious about the Toyota production system and the lean approach, I‘ve been a bit disappointed by this booked. Granted, it is a broad study about how lean compares to mass production in the car industry. The data and research are thorough, no doubt.

What I did find is that this book is less about the machine that actually changed the world and more about proving that it did. This book is an interesting backdrop for others in this space, like „The Goal� but on its own I found it a bit dry.

Independent of the machine, some of the predictions of the car industry from thirty years ago have also taken an interesting turn of events. The book talks about how experts are still figuring out climate change and if that‘s a thing.

I also would‘ve wished for a more up-to-date revisit of the storyline as a whole and what‘s happened since then. The included update from 2007 is just prior to GM‘s collapse and bailout and just as GM had gone all in on using lean production. But neither of these two points are real criticism, just wishes and thoughts thirty years later.