Unlocking Toyota's Winning Formula | Alan Weir | Belfast Roots to Global Success

 

Meet Alan Weir…

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.

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