Toyota Production System (TPS)

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Nature of Change

Possibility of Change

Most leaders know their company must change. But there is not a lot of change happening. Before asking how circularity transformation works, we ask whether it can happen at all.

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Made to Stick

Circularity is a complicated idea that needs to be simplified to be remembered. The Heath brothers wrote the book on that, and it points to a story we should have been telling all along.

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Build

Circularity transformation needs a cornucopia of new-to-world products, made quickly and well. Tony Fadell's method for making them is repeatable.

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A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander built a language for making places that serve human needs beautifully and economically. It doubles as a manual for choosing well where no data exists — the exact position circularity strategists occupy today.

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Toyota Production System

Lean's founding text by Taiichi Ohno shows that the most celebrated efficiency revolution in business history was circular from the start — and hands circularity transformation its strongest precedent.