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

Published: March 4, 2024, 5 a.m.

Alan Weir is a top leader at Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK.

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In today's episode, we talk about:

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  • His first job in Belfast Zoo Amusement park as a kid
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  • Working in a seatbelt factory
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  • Leaving home
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  • Managing a team of 40 English men in his early-twenties
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  • (And the leadership lessons he learned as a result)
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  • The powerful culture Toyota have created
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  • Experiencing Japan for the first time
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  • How a car comes of the line every 86 seconds at his factory
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  • (And the business principles that make that possible!)
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  • Ways he switches off from work
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  • And advice he'd give to an 18-year-old version of himself.
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Check it out!

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https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/alan-weir-toyota-uk