LeanBlog Podcast #28 features our friend and frequent guest, Norman Bodek, noted lean author, consultant, and President of PCS Press. This also celebrates the 1 year anniversary of the Podcast, which featured Norman as our first guest. As I’ve given him credit for previously, the Podcast really was Norman’s idea when he said I should do “radio interviews” with him. Thankfully, this has turned into a series of interviews with others that I have enjoyed immensely. I hope you enjoy them as well.

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• Summary of Norman’s talk at the TWI Summit and the “pledge of continuous improvement.”
• Gantt’s book “Organizing Work” (via Google Books) — the stakeholder groups that a business must serve (including community)
• Lifetime employment and the obligation for good management
• Can you have a workplace with no bosses? Example of a Skippy peanut butter plant
• Is the ultimate goal automation? Norman’s thoughts on that
• Managers’s resistance to change as a separate type of waste?
• Being on the floor all the time as a manager
• Norman talking about “conscious learning” (his next book)

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About LeanBlog.org: Mark Graban is a consultant, author, and speaker in the “lean healthcare” methodology, focused on improving quality and patient safety, improving access, reducing costs, and fully engaging healthcare professionals. He is also the Chief Improvement Officer for KaiNexus.

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