{"id":96,"date":"2007-06-21T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/21\/quietly-excellent\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T16:27:03","slug":"quietly-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/21\/quietly-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"quietly excellent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the WSJ today about Toyota and Jim Press, their north american CEO<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118236836933942337.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118236836933942337.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace\">\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118236836933942337.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Late last year in a New York conference room, Mr. Press quietly listened to a pitch from Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. for a campaign that used Toyota&#8217;s growing American work force as a way to deflect potential criticism over the company&#8217;s strength in the U.S. Then he politely sent the Dentsu team back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really appreciate your efforts,&#8221; he said. But &#8220;isn&#8217;t diversity something you don&#8217;t tout publicly but something you just carry out quietly inside the company?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolvingexcellence.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/quietly-excelle.html\">http:\/\/www.evolvingexcellence.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/quietly-excelle.html<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Toyota does not try to win awards as they believe the effort involved to apply for an award is also waste.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of trying to win a Shingo Prize, they openly teach their methods to others.<\/p>\n<p>Quiet excellence gives a sense of being deeply real and fundamentally true.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it usually is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the WSJ today about Toyota and Jim Press, their north american CEO. \u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118236836933942337.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace Late last year in a New York conference room, Mr. Press quietly listened to a pitch from Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/21\/quietly-excellent\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}