The book The Toyota way to lean leadership by Jeffery K Liker and Gary L Convis is a piece of comprehensive and exhaustive account of the Toyota as a company and the practice of its successful concept of lean leadership at every level of the management which are responsible to making Toyota one of the most successful car manufacturing companies of all times. It also discusses the reasons for failure the organisation suffered between 2007 to 2011 and the factors which were responsible for it. The book goes in detail about the role of lean leadership in an organisation such a Toyota and the lean leadership in Toyota is discussed in depth which helps us to understand the effort the authors have put to study the company, its processes and systems and also its people to help the readers understand the implications of lean leadership which built world class organisation such as Toyota. It also discusses the five year period where Toyota was going through a crisis and there were lot of issues which pointed at lack of clarity and vision of the top management and the senior leadership in the global markets away from the domestic Japanese market and the lessons that Toyaota learnt from three major issues which impacted its market leadership position.