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Podcasts on Lean, Leadership, and Continuous Improvement

The Lean Blog Interviews Podcast explores leadership, systems, and continuous improvement through thoughtful conversations with practitioners, executives, authors, and researchers. These episodes go beyond tools to examine how organizations really improve—through better leadership behaviors, respect for people, learning from mistakes, and sound management systems. This archive brings together podcast episodes focused on Lean, healthcare, Toyota, Deming, psychological safety, and what it actually takes to sustain improvement over time.

When a Lean Leader Admits He Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing,...

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Gary Peterson spent almost 40 years helping O.C. Tanner build a continuous improvement culture, work that earned the company the Shingo Prize in 1999....

Jeff Liker, Twenty Years Later: The Ideas That Keep Showing Up

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In 2006, I started this podcast. Jeff Liker was guest number 3, in August of that year. He has been back on seven more...

Chad Diggs on Building Quality Systems, Not Heroes

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Why do so many quality programs fall apart the moment the firefighter walks out the door? In this conversation, Chad Diggs talks about his...

Deming’s Long Shadow: Twenty Years of Conversations

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Mike Stoecklein recalls a story secondhand. It was, he thinks, at one of the last four-day seminars W. Edwards Deming ever gave. Deming was...

What Jim Womack Kept Telling Us

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In March 2007, Jim Womack told me about his biggest disappointment. The Machine That Changed the World had been out for more than sixteen years,...

Remembering Norm Bodek, 20 Years After Episode #1

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In July 2006, I pressed record on a conversation with Norm Bodek. The audio quality was poor. I had no idea what I was...

Why Most People Don’t Think — and What to Do About...

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Scott Burgmeyer, founder and CEO of Become More Group, has spent more than 30 years watching smart people make avoidable decisions -- not because...

Creating Value Without Command-and-Control — John Rizzo on Empowering People

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In this episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, John Rizzo explains how organizations create lasting value by empowering people instead of relying on...

Kathy Miller on “MORE Is Better”: Meaning, Optimism, and Relationships in...

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What if stronger operations don't come from doing less--but from leading with more meaning, optimism, and connection? In this conversation, Kathy Miller shares insights...

How Don Kieffer Applies Toyota Thinking to Modern Knowledge Work

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Why do so many Lean efforts fail in offices, engineering, and executive work? In this episode, Don Kieffer explains why copying Toyota's rituals misses...

From Firefighting to Flow — Darren Walsh on Lean Leadership Routines...

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Why do so many Lean efforts stall after early wins? In this episode, Darren Walsh explains why firefighting feels productive but prevents real progress--and...

Why Leaders Get Trapped in Firefighting: Nelson Repenning on Lean, Flow,...

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Why do capable leaders spend their days firefighting instead of improving the system? In this episode, MIT professor Nelson Repenning explains how poorly designed...
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