Sounds kinda like martial arts training

Paul
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http://www.columbusdispatch.com/business-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/05/06/20060506-D1-01.html

While the troubles of U.S. automakers have drawn much of the media attention, Toyota has been quietly doing its job right.

Toyota has boosted U.S. vehicle sales by 10 percent last year from 2004, to clinch 13 percent of the U.S. vehicle market share, up from 12 percent in 2004, leading a steady gain by Asian companies. GM’s U.S. market share has been dwindling, dipping to 26 percent last year from 27 percent in 2004.

But for the first time, the Japanese automaker is passing on to workers outside Japan the knowledge that had been passed on silently on the job from generation to generation. ...

Although the teaching tools are mostly visual and hands-on, designed to skirt language barriers, the key to producing quality cars is to absorb the proper movements through your body through repeated practice, much like a dance lesson, often in time to a jingling metronome, Toyota officials say.

As explains the quality that goes into every Toyota!

Wax on Wax off--Wax on Wax off

Wax on Wax off--Wax on Wax off
Afterwards they catch flies with chopsticks during a lunch break.

Hahaha. Indeed. I guess they're right about the body being a better more natural learner than in-Class learning. Don't get the metronome part though.

Great atheletes train their muscles through repetitive motion. The same swing--the same pitch--the same shot-EVERY time. The metronome no doubt allows the repetition to be on time each time it is performed.

Toyota actually considers Team Members "Industrial Athletes".

Just another reason to love Toyota, they really are going out there to be the best.