<p><a href="https://www.leanblog.org/2026/02/stop-demotivating-employees-deming-toyota/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The blog post</a></p><p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> Deming and Toyota's Fujio Cho asked the same uncomfortable question: why do management systems destroy motivation in people who started out wanting to do good work? The answer points to practices leaders can actually change.</p><p>Check part 1 of this series in episode 464,</p>