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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\n - His first job in Belfast Zoo Amusement park as a kid
\n - Working in a seatbelt factory
\n - Leaving home
\n - Managing a team of 40 English men in his early-twenties
\n - (And the leadership lessons he learned as a result)
\n - The powerful culture Toyota have created
\n - Experiencing Japan for the first time
\n - How a car comes of the line every 86 seconds at his factory
\n - (And the business principles that make that possible!)
\n - Ways he switches off from work
\n - 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