Tag: Leadership
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 17, 2025
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Why Care: Building Respectful Lean Cultures with Caroline Greenlee & Chris...
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My guests for Episode #537 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Caroline Greenlee and Chris...
Leader Standard Work Is About Behavior, Not Just Your Calendar
Leader Standard Work: It's Not Just Where You Go, But How You Show Up
Too often, the concept of Leader Standard Work (LSW) in Lean is reduced...
From 5S Frustration to Lean Leadership: A Conversation with a Future...
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with a supply chain student (taking undergraduate courses) who reached out with thoughtful questions about Lean principles....
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 3, 2025
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From Know-It-All to Learn-It-All: Leadership Lessons from Mistakes
Lessons from my book The Mistakes That Make Us, plus conversations with Phillip Cantrell and Damon Lembi
One of the central themes in my book, The...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 19, 2025
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Plan, Do, Check, Act… or Plan, Do, Cover Your A**? Leadership...
Lean thinkers love their acronyms, I guess. PDCA -- Plan, Do, Check, Act -- is one of the classics. Or we could argue about...
Why “You’re Being Safe” Should Be the Norm in Every Operating...
"I wish moments like this didn't seem so noteworthy. I wish focusing on safety and thanking people for speaking up was the norm in...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 5, 2025
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Don’t Repeat Our Mistakes: Dale Lucht’s Leadership Habits for Lean
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My guest for Episode #534 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dale Lucht, co-author of...
Fear and Futility: Two Barriers to Improvement (and How Leaders Can...
Have you ever seen a problem at work but decided not to say anything? Maybe you were worried about the reaction (fear). Or maybe...