Ownership means once I detect a problem I own it. I am responsible for it. - Jeffrey K. Liker

A cornerstone of the Toyota Way is “challenge

The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises. (Ohno, 1988)

We want organizations to be adaptive, flexible, self-renewing, resilient, learning, intelligent — attributes found only in living systems. The tension of our times is that we want our organizations to behave as living systems, but we only know how to treat them as machines. — Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time