Podcast interview with Ken Pilone, author of Lean Leadership on a Napkin, discussing Toyota, TPS vs. Lean, leadership humility, and common misconceptions about Lean management. Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #455 of…
Today, I hosted and moderated the latest in our KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinar series. I’m really excited that the presenter will be Mark Valenti — he’s been a bit of a mentor and coach for me on the topic of…
Our last KaiNexus webinar took a deep dive into problem solving — you can check out the recording on the KaiNexus website or through YouTube. The next webinar, being held on June 5, will take a step back to look…
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…
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Joining me again for episode #301 of the podcast is Joe Swartz, my friend and co-author for our books Healthcare Kaizen and The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen:. You can learn more about our books here. He also contributed a chapter to the book Practicing Lean. (read an excerpt).
Today, we're talking about "Champions of Change," as I've been writing about for Cardinal Health.
Lean can be very fragile. History shows that Lean can fall apart even in an organization that is years into a "Lean journey" with strong CEO involvement.
How is this possible? If often happens when a new CEO is brought in from the outside. In the case of the manufacturing company, Wiremold, it happened when they were acquired by a French company, Legrand.
As an aside, the team that coined the term "Lean" almost used the term "fragile," as I blogged about here.
Back in 2007, Bob Emiliani joined me for Episode #30 of the podcast. As we revisit the podcast and the new transcript I had made, what are the lessons for manufacturers or hospitals?
What's the risk that's created when new leadership takes over?
Today, Joe Swartz and I are leading a workshop about “Healthcare Kaizen” in Farmington Hills. A “core Kaizen concept,” as Joe says, is that leaders who want their employees to participate in Kaizen should first make an improvement to their own work.…
Karen Martin shares insights from her book The Outstanding Organization on reducing organizational chaos, improving daily work, and building systems that support everyday excellence through clarity, focus, discipline, and engagement. Joining me for episode #151 is my friend Karen Martin,…
A returning guest for episode #132, we are joined by author and professor Bob Emiliani. Today, we are chatting about some videos he recently posted to his website… 10-year-old videos that document executives from Virginia Mason Medical Center, now considered…
Former Toyota team member Darril Wilburn, co-author with Hiro Yoshiki of Courage, Humility, Kaizen: The Three Disciplines of Toyota Leadership, tells the inside story of how Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky plant went from needing to build almost 90% of its capacity…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for Episode #550 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi, co-authors of the new book Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking Tools to Unblock Software…
Accounting teams see problems every day. As Nick Katko puts it, they fix them, but they don’t necessarily solve them. We talk about what a continuous improvement system looks like inside an accounting department, the three parts of that system,…
