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My guest for Episode #462 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Professor John Grout, the former dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. He was recently a guest on “My Favorite Mistake” — Episode 186, so I…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there’s always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Get these directly from Ryan via email. Insights about improvement, innovation, and leadership… Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Fit…
TL;DR: The Negroni shows how clear standards make variation visible–and how unnamed variation shuts down learning. The Negroni Sbagliato proves that when mistakes aren’t blamed or hidden, they can become sources of insight, improvement, and even new standards. The Negroni…
Today, I’d like to share an interview that I did for the podcast series called “Habitual Excellence,” which is presented by Value Capture. I had the great opportunity to interview Louis A. Shaprio – Lou is the president and CEO…
“Simply put, we cannot get to zero harm without psychological safety.” I wrote that as part of this page on the Value Capture website: Psychological Safety and Its Essential Link to Continuous Improvement I’ve come to understand that psychological safety is a…
I’m sure I could be more mindful. To be honest, I’m not really sure what that means, though. That’s why I’m happy to have hosted a webinar that was presented by Dave Kippen as part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #461 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Gauthier Duval, the Director of the Lean Center of Excellence at Veryable. He’s applied and taught Lean for over…
I don’t do things like this on purpose just to create illustrations and examples. But last week, as I was writing away on my new book project about learning from mistakes, I make this small mistake, a “slip” as they…
For the second week in a row (after this one), my latest episode of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is one with deep Lean content that readers here might likely enjoy: Manufacturing Executive Martina Kuhlmeyer Had Too Many High-Priority Initiatives…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there’s always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Get these directly from Ryan via email. Insights about improvement, innovation, and leadership… Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Does…
Psychological safety is often discussed as a single concept, but in practice it develops in stages. The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety framework–popularized by Timothy R. Clark–offers a practical way to understand how inclusion, learning, contribution, and challenge build on…
This week’s episode of the My Favorite Mistake podcast has a guest and a conversation that will be very directly relevant to you as a Lean practitioner. I hope you’ll check it out: Within the next month, John is also…
