This episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast explores psychological safety in Lean leadership through the lens of Toyota’s culture, with insights from Mike Hoseus, former Toyota leader and co-author of Toyota Culture. We discuss how respect for people, andon…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #500 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is me, your usual host Mark Graban. Today, I’m mixing up the format with a solo episode that celebrates 500…
TL;DR: Five years after the print release of Measures of Success, the core lesson still holds: reacting less to data and understanding variation leads to better leadership decisions–yet many organizations still struggle to apply this thinking consistently. Today is the…
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…
I’ve been on a few more radio shows, talking about mistakes (“My Favorite Mistake” themes) and entrepreneurship. I’ve also been the guest on two podcasts recently, so I’ll share those here in this post. The Uncommon Leader Lean consultant turned…
The other day, I had an external hard drive completely fail. I lost the last 10 days’ worth of data. That wasn’t supposed to happen. I had protections and backups in place… yet something still went horribly wrong. If you…
I say it a lot, but two data points are not a trend. I didn’t invent that idea, of course, but I’ve tried to help leaders and organizations stop reacting to every up-and-down in a metric through the methods I…
TL;DR: Akio Toyoda describes the Toyota Production System as a people-centered leadership system focused on Jidoka, short lead times, and making work easier–where productivity is a result, not the goal. I was really happy to see this publication by Toyota,…
Yesterday’s podcast is admittedly very long (almost two hours), but it’s a very important topic, and I appreciate the opportunity to have had this discussion with Christopher D. Chapman and Dr. Valeria Sinclair-Chapman. Diversity on stage isn’t just a numbers game–it’s about making…
The past few months have been an anxious and contemplative time. I’ve been worried about the coronavirus / Covid-19 and the possible impact on my health or my family’s health. But, I’m blessed, as we have our health and this…
tl;dr summary: Fake Lean Six Sigma books were already crowding Amazon before generative AI made them cheaper to produce and harder to spot. The tell that still works is whether a real, findable author stands behind the book. Usually, my…
KaiNexus and I were happy to host an excellent webiner by Barry O’Reilly, the author of the book Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. The webinar is on these themes: Why Great Leaders Must Unlearn to…