My guest for Episode #103 is Matthew E. May, returning to talk about his latest book, a business fable called The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change. I’ve been reading the book and have found it to be…
This podcast is a continuation of my earlier interviews with Matthew E. May, author of the Shingo Prize-winning book The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation.
This podcast is a continuation of my earlier interview (Video Podcast #4) with Matthew E. May, author of the Shingo Prize-winning book The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation. His most recent book, available since May, is In Pursuit…
This podcast is an interview with Matt May, author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation. Available May 19 is his new book In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something…
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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace…
TL;DR Twenty years later, Jeffrey Liker’s message still applies: Lean fails when it’s treated as a set of tools instead of a leadership system. Toyota’s results come from developing people, creating stability, and fostering psychological safety–not from dashboards or templates.…
Caring cultures are not “soft” extras in Lean–they are foundational. Caroline Greenlee and Chris Butterworth explain how psychological safety, respect for people, and wellbeing enable sustainable continuous improvement. Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for…
This edition of Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape challenges leaders to rethink how they use data, technology, and culture in the pursuit of improvement. From the unintended consequences of dashboard “red alerts” and shallow automation ROI metrics, to the dangers…
This edition of Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape explores the tension between short-term optimization and long-term improvement. The selections highlight why stability must come before automation, how over-optimization can erode resilience, and why improvement depends as much on social systems…
This edition of Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape examines the shifting balance between people, systems, and strategy in the pursuit of better performance. From Toyota’s hospital and vineyard-to-glass winemaking to the limits of automation at Starbucks, the selections highlight how…
I’ve played around with ChatGPT before (including in a few blog posts), but the advancements in A.I. technologies are pretty breathtaking. I recently tried out the new “Notebook LM” tool from Google. I uploaded a PDF of my latest book,…