Lockdown leads Toyota chief to question core tenet

CEO Akio Toyoda: “We need to be bold about what we should stop doing, and what we should change.” (BLOOMBERG/Bloomberg)

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SHIHO TAKEZAWA and NAO SANO

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Bloomberg

May 12, 2020 12:40 PM

Toyota Motor Corp. CEO Akio Toyoda says he is starting to question long-ingrained practices at the Japanese carmaker after cutting travel by 80 percent and spending less time in meetings as part of measures to guard against the spread of COVID-19.

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