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TODAY marks the 17th birthday (or is it an anniversary?) of my Lean Blog Interviews podcast (known in the early days as the LeanBlog Podcast). It’s an awkward name and part of me wishes I had chosen something with more…
Listen: In Episode 40, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh get back together after their in-person visit, where they enjoyed the origins of this podcast: talking about lean stuff while enjoying some whiskey. We get to celebrate the launch of Mark’s…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there’s always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. Insights about improvement, innovation, and leadership… Operational Excellence, Improvement, and…
Bottom Line Up Front: I wrote a book about mistakes. That book was published… with some mistakes. Since it’s a book about learning from mistakes, that’s the intent of this post. Initial Reflections: As I’ve hosted a podcast about learning…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more For Episode #480 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast turns the tables, as regular host Mark Graban is interviewed today by a guest host, his friend Paul Critchley. Paul was previously…
tl;dr: Most charts don’t actually show improvement–they show routine variation. Without enough data and without using tools like Process Behavior Charts, it’s easy to mistake noise for meaningful change. Before claiming a trend, get more history, look for statistical signals,…
TL;DR: PDSA only works when people feel safe to surface problems, test ideas, and admit when something didn’t work. PDSA is supposed to be the engine of learning in Lean organizations. It’s how teams test ideas, discover what actually works,…
I really enjoyed the webinar that my friend Karyn Ross presented on July 11th as part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement webinar series. I was the host and moderator. Why Kindness is the Key to Lean Leadership Here is the…
tl;dr summary: Rare events like MLB perfect games are hard to analyze with simple counts. Process Behavior Charts–especially “days between events”–reveal real signals without overreacting to randomness. In my book Measures of Success, I share what I’ve learned about the…
Colleyville, TX, July 05, 2023 –(PR.com)– Mistakes are often seen as roadblocks to success, but what if they were actually the stepping stones to growth and innovation? Mark Graban, award-winning author and consultant, tackles this paradigm in his latest book, “The…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more Joining us for Episode #479 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Arnout Orelio, a returning guest (from Episode 403 in 2021). He has been working with Lean management since 1995,…
At one point, I had a silly little Blogger.com blog called “Lean Spaghetti Art” where I took some “spaghetti diagrams” from my Lean work and realized that they were like a form of abstract art, especially when run through some…
