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In 1999, during his first year at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK), Darril Wilburn was given two jackets and a watch. The gifts celebrated how good everyone felt about the plant. The Camry was the best-selling passenger car in the…
When an organization gets described as having a culture of silence, the usual picture is of employees who won’t speak up. They saw the problem. They kept quiet. Afterward, somebody asks why nobody said anything. Sometimes that’s what happened. But…
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A unit’s patient falls go from four to seven. In the monthly operating review, someone is asked what happened. Someone else promises to look into it. The next month, falls drop to three, and the unit manager gets a nod…
Former Toyota team member Darril Wilburn, co-author with Hiro Yoshiki of Courage, Humility, Kaizen: The Three Disciplines of Toyota Leadership, tells the inside story of how Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky plant went from needing to build almost 90% of its capacity…
Toyota’s history of building quality into the process goes back more than a century, long before the company started making cars. Now, a new AI welding robot developed by Toyota’s GAZOO Racing division and Yaskawa Electric offers an interesting evolution…
Most NFL owners watch games from a luxury suite. Carlie Irsay-Gordon, the principal owner and CEO of the Indianapolis Colts, watches from the sideline near the bench, with a headset on and a notebook in her hand. She’s been doing…
Another email arrives about a potential podcast guest. I haven’t responded to the first pitch, but the sender wants to make sure it didn’t get lost in my inbox. A few days later, there’s another reminder. I don’t necessarily object…
Danaher has been one of the most cited Lean success stories in the United States for decades. The story usually starts at Jacobs Manufacturing (Jake Brake) in Connecticut in 1987, with Art Byrne, George Koenigsaecker, and the Shingijutsu consultants who…
On Super Bowl Sunday in February, an 18-month-old boy was pulled from his family’s pool in Gilbert, Arizona, and rushed to Mercy Gilbert Medical Center. He was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. At 11:52 p.m., staff from the medical examiner’s…
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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for Episode #550 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi, co-authors of the new book Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking Tools to Unblock Software…
