Podcast
Lean Blog Interviews
How do we improve our work, lead more effectively, and create better outcomes for the people we serve? In Lean Blog Interviews, I talk with practitioners, leaders, authors, and other guests about Lean management, continuous improvement, and the lessons they have learned along the way. We discuss experiences from healthcare, manufacturing, and other settings, including what worked, what did not, and what others can learn. Hosted by Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals and The Mistakes That Make Us.
How Toyota Turned Around Its Kentucky Plant: Darril Wilburn on Leadership
Former Toyota team member Darril Wilburn, co-author with Hiro Yoshiki of Courage, Humility, Kaizen: The...
Signals & Levers: Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi on Change Theater, Open Loops, and Systems Thinking for Software Teams
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for Episode #550 of...
Creating a Continuous Improvement System in Accounting: Nick Katko on PDCA, Culture, and Psychological Safety
Accounting teams see problems every day. As Nick Katko puts it, they fix them, but...
A Lean Management System That Doesn’t Depend on the Lean Team — Emily Swaney, OhioHealth
Emily Swaney, VP of Operational Excellence at OhioHealth, explains how a Lean Promotion Office of...
20 Years Of Lean Podcasting, Thanks to Norman Bodek
Twenty years ago, on July 16, 2006, the Lean Blog Podcast began with a conversation...
Why Lean Fails to Stick — with Thomas Cox and Andre DeMerchant
Why does Lean fail to stick so often? Thomas Cox and Andre DeMerchant join me...
When a Lean Leader Admits He Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing, with Gary Peterson
Gary Peterson spent almost 40 years helping O.C. Tanner build a continuous improvement culture, work...
Jeff Liker, Twenty Years Later: The Ideas That Keep Showing Up
In 2006, I started this podcast. Jeff Liker was guest number 3, in August of...
Chad Diggs on Building Quality Systems, Not Heroes
Why do so many quality programs fall apart the moment the firefighter walks out the...
Why Most People Don’t Think — and What to Do About It, with Scott Burgmeyer
Scott Burgmeyer, founder and CEO of Become More Group, has spent more than 30 years...
Creating Value Without Command-and-Control — John Rizzo on Empowering People
In this episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, John Rizzo explains how organizations create...
Kathy Miller on “MORE Is Better”: Meaning, Optimism, and Relationships in Operations Leadership
What if stronger operations don't come from doing less–but from leading with more meaning, optimism...
