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About George

George Trachilis is a professional engineer living in Canada. He is co-founder of the Lean Leadership Institute, an online coaching network he co-founded with Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker. They collaborated to produce an online course called The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership which later became the book, Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels, that won the Shingo Research Award.

George also authored the book OEM Principles of Lean Thinking which was based on an online course he produced for the Government of Canada in 2006. This course and book educated over 300 organizations on the Principles of Lean Thinking. The course later went global and educated 100,000 students from 60 different countries.

In 2011, George figured out that he was more likely to predict the future by stating a goal and executing towards it. He ran the experiment. Four years later, his goal was met and he traveled the world sharing with others how he did it. Luckily he shared his vision on Youtube; To travel the world consulting over the internet.

Today, George is writing a new book called Lean Construction Leaders. He recruits, speaks, and coaches executives online. However, he enjoys consulting with organizations that respect their people by building them up to the highest standards possible.

In this course, it is our intention to give you an introduction to the world’s best management training method to teach you how to have a very successful life. It was my miracle to have discovered Takashi Harada, and I now have the privilege to teach his work and to co-author this book. There are many “success” teachers in the world who have written bestselling books: Stephen R. Covey, Malcolm Gladwell, Jack Caldwell, and others, but in my opinion only Takashi Harada really gives you a step-by-step exact method to follow to reach your goals and your personal success. This book is about that method. If you follow the Harada Method you will find your personal and professional success. Let’s get started now, looking at what the Harada Method is and how you and your employees can get started learning the steps right away.

“When people pick strong goals, with purposes and values that serve not only themselves but also serve others, their entire character changes.”

– Takashi Harada

Having translated and published over one hundred books on Japanese management techniques while I was at Productivity Inc. Press, I was familiar with many of the techniques on the MAP, but not all of them. Shortly after we began our sessions with Mr. Nakamura, he taught us about the seventh category - “Standard Manpower,” that included the following countermeasures: “100% standard time achievement rate + 3% improvement per month” and “Day-to-day management by objective.” The benchmark examples were “Old Canon Production System” and “Daily Management System by Takashi Harada.”

The World’s Best Concept on Day-to-Day Management

According to the JMA, Takashi Harada’s Daily Management System was the world’s best program on day-to-day management. It was the best technique for managers to develop their employees and create a new culture within the company. Mr. Harada had found a new way to inspire people to reach their maximum, creative potential.

The Harada Method complements the work of Dr. Shigeo Shingo and Taiichi Ohno by addressing the human side of Lean. The Harada Method is the Human Side of Lean. It overcomes the Eighth Waste of Lean: the underutilization of people’s creative talents. It empowers people to take charge of their own lives to become highly skilled on the job. It teaches how the company and every employee can be successful at the same time.

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Meeting Mr. Harada

Mr. Harada’s background is unique and varied, which helped him to develop his method based on his own personal experiences. In Japan, Harada is a renowned coach, trainer and consultant. But prior to entering the business world, Harada was a junior high school track and field coach at the worst school out of 380 in Osaka, Japan. The school was probably in the most depressed area of Osaka with very few students able to believe that they were capable of achieving anything in their lives. Not only were so many of the students failing academically, but few had ever experienced any kind of athletic success. Mr. Harada felt that he could bring positive change and motivate the students to become better athletes.

Mr. Harada noticed that there were schools in Osaka that were consistently successful in track and field. He thought, “If another coach in Osaka can produce a winning team, so can I! The other coaches have to get athletes from their local areas too.” Harada realized that he could not just pick winners; he had to somehow develop them.

Three Years Later, the School Became Number One in Osaka

George suggests:

Over the past 10 years of implementing the Harada Method, this linear process of Picking a Goal, then Finding your purpose has been a real challenge. He recommends watching the next video by Takashi Harada in Japan and doing this exercise of determining the values and purposes behind your goals. DO THIS FIRST before setting a goal. 

In many ways, understanding your purpose will allow you to set the right goal. And understanding your goals will help you understand your purpose. Takashi Harada in Japan takes you through this process in STEP 7. You can go through the exercise in Step 7 - then come back to this step and continue.

Unfortunately, life is not linear. As much as we try to put things in a box, and make sense of it - this process is one of discovery. Please do Step 7 and come back. This will be a continual and repeating process each year.

Provide yourself a score from 1-10 (10=excellent) -- then list what you will do to get to 10.  Then list what your next step could be. What could be a countermeasure? What could be a next step?

# ATTRIBUTE SCORE

1 Accountable

2 Adaptable

3 Authentic

4 Brave

5 Capable

6 Caring

7 Confident

8 Creative

9 Determined

10 Ethical

11 Empowered

12 Flexible

13 Highly Skilled

14 Honest

15 Imaginative

16 Independent

17 Innovative

18 Inspired

19 Inquisitive

20 Knowledgeable

21 Motivated

22 Organized

23 Personable

24 Prepared

25 Proactive

26 Realistic

27 Responsible

28 Self-Managed

29 Strategic

30 Strong-willed

31 Supportive

32 Trustworthy

33 Visionary

Step 3 – Service to Others

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Be available to those who are seriously interested in implementing the Harada Method.

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“The purpose in life is to serve others and do something of value.”

– Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

It took me some time to understand Harada’s principle of making service to others an important part of attaining success. In America, we come from a culture that fosters the individual to succeed on his or her own. We are “rugged individualists,” coming from the Wild West mentality. Sure, we give to charity and are good to our families and friends, but we are taught to be fiercely competitive in the world of business. Being fiercely competitive is fine, but you should also include others in your ambition. Further on in the book, Mr. Harada will show you how serving others is an important key to your own success.

A very important key to being successful with the method is to learn the importance of serving others. Serving others gives you a balance to achieve your goal and helps develop your character. Harada’s idea that service to others is an important part of attaining success took me some time to fully understand.

You do not need to serve others so that you can get something back. When you serve others, the quality of that act does something very beneficial to you. In fact, the more you focus on serving others, the easier it is for you to sustain your motivation and attain your goals. It is hard to break past habits, but when you know others are depending on you, you will fight harder to be successful.

A mother does not serve her child with the thought of getting anything back. A mother just loves the child, serves the child well and is grateful when the child grows up to be an outstanding person.

When You Serve Others Well, You Break Own Your Own Limitations

“Only a life lived for others is worth living.”

– Albert Einstein