Following up on my recent collaboration with ChatGPT (“Alternative History: GM Uses Lean to Remain #1 in the Auto Industry“), I also asked the AI bot to simulate what might have gone differently in healthcare. I gave an initial prompt…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more Joining us for Episode #468 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Jody Crane, M.D. He’s the Chief Medical Officer for TeamHealth, and he was previously a guest for Episode 120.…
TL;DR: GM had the chance to learn the Toyota Production System firsthand at NUMMI starting in 1984. They didn’t. I asked ChatGPT to imagine what might have happened if they had. Updated May 2024: I worked with ChatGPT 4 to…
Joining us for Episode #467 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Tracy Defoe. She is an adult education consultant and researcher specializing in workplace education. For parts of the last 10 years, she has been puzzling over the challenges of participation and…
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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more Joining us for Episode #466 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is a returning guest, Billy Taylor. Since his last appearance, Billy has written and released a great book titled The…
I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a book based on — inspired by — the interviews, stories, and insights from my guests on the My Favorite Mistake podcast. The book isn’t just a collection of transcripts of those stories. That…
A colleague from KaiNexus sent me a photo from his daughter’s third-grade classroom. It’s titled “The Magic of Growth Mindset,” a reference to the concept and the book Mindset by Carol Dweck. The Grade 3 students probably aren’t reading Dweck’s…
When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video that gives an overview of the Toyota Production System. I’ve seen the video a few times…
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…
TL;DR: Larry Culp’s AME keynote shows that Lean leadership at GE is about how leaders think, learn, and respond to problems–not tools. Katie Anderson and Mark Graban discuss psychological safety, gemba, learning from mistakes, and building culture through daily leadership…
It was a real treat to hear Larry Culp, the CEO of General Electric and CEO of GE Aerospace, speak at the AME 2022 annual conference in Dallas. He recently reached the four-year mark of his tenure as GE’s first-ever…
