Tag: Leadership
From Firefighting to Flow: Darren Walsh on Lean Leadership Routines that...
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My guest for Episode #539 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Darren Walsh, author of...
GE’s Larry Culp: Why Lean Thinking Starts with Safety and Respect...
It's rare to find a Fortune 100 CEO who talks about flow, standard work, and kaizen with the same fluency as a plant manager....
The Lasting Impact of a 2009 Kaizen Study in Emergency Medicine...
Back in 2009, my friend and KaiNexus co-founder Dr. Greg Jacobson and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center published an article that still...
What Lean Leaders Can Learn from Dan Quinn: Accountability Without Blame
Leadership isn't about avoiding mistakes--it's about responding to them with honesty and humility.
This week, Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn offered a clear example....
How Great Leaders Prevent Mistakes and Learn from the Ones That...
I recently gave a virtual keynote for a global manufacturing company that's a customer of KaiNexus. Their leaders wanted to explore how to strengthen...
Leadership, Laughter, and Lean: How a CEO’s Shaved Head Symbolized $7...
In Lean circles, we talk a lot about leadership commitment. But it's not every day that a CEO puts their hair on the line...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 17, 2025
Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
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
Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
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...















