Recommended Reading Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results Buy Book Mike Rother, McGraw Hill 2010 The author explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: The Improvement Kata – a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles and always learning from the problems we encounter; and the Coaching Kata – a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure that motivates their ways of thinking and acting.