Tag: Karen Martin

Karen Martin and Mark Graban discuss mistake proofing in lean management, why "zero harm" is a meaningful aspiration, and how building quality at the...

Over the years, I've seen how often organizations respond to mistakes with blame, punishment, or superficial fixes--rather than learning and prevention. That's why I...

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My guest for Episode #319 is Karen Martin, whose most recent book is Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance. She was previously a guest on Episodes #151, #190, and #285. Karen is an author of many books on Lean, quality, and performance excellence. She is also a speaker and a consultant with a B.S. in Microbiology from Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in Education from California State University, Bakersfield. Read her full bio. What is clarity? How can we work toward creating less fog and more clarity in organizations? We'll talk about that, along with a bit of discussion about clarity in metrics, as I write about in my book Measures of Success.

Joining me for Episode #285 is my friend and colleague, Karen Martin. She was previously a guest on Episode #151 where we discussed her book The Outstanding Organization and #190 we discussed her book Value Stream Mapping book. We'll be doing another podcast later this year about her next book, which is titled Clarity First: How Wise Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance. Karen reached out with a provocative question that's easy to discuss, but hard to answer: "Is Lean Dead?" The reason she asked is that she's heard murmuring and read articles that ask "is it time for something new?" or if we're somehow in a "post-Lean" world.

I'm happy to be a participating author on "The Lean Edge" blog/site that's hosted by Michael Ballé author of The Gold Mine and other books. Their most recent question...

Episode #190 features Karen Martin, co-author of Value Stream Mapping, on using VSM as a strategic leadership tool--avoiding "map wallpaper," aligning incentives, and turning...

Mark's note -- today's guest post is by my  friend Karen Martin, my guest for Podcast #151 where we talked about her latest book The...