Leadership isn’t about titles, charisma, or quick decisions—it’s about creating systems where people can do their best work and continuously improve. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on leadership through a Lean lens, drawing on ideas from Deming, Toyota, healthcare, and real-world management practice. The common theme: leaders shape culture, influence behavior, and own the systems that produce results—for better or worse.
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more Joining us for Episode #466 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is a returning guest, Billy Taylor. Since his last appearance, Billy has written and released a great book titled The…
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In this LeanBlog Podcast episode, Tom Peters shares why “extreme humanism” is essential to modern leadership. He explains why caring deeply about people isn’t soft–it’s the foundation of excellence, innovation, and sustainable performance. Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript,…
There’s a new “AI copy writing tool” that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial and, of course, I tested it by asking the service to write a blog post about Lean in…
Nursing turnover is very likely costing your organization millions of dollars. But you don’t have to just accept that… you can fix it. I’m happy to have moderated a webinar that was hosted by Value Capture, presented by two leaders…
TL;DR: Larry Culp’s AME keynote shows that Lean leadership at GE is about how leaders think, learn, and respond to problems–not tools. Katie Anderson and Mark Graban discuss psychological safety, gemba, learning from mistakes, and building culture through daily leadership…
TL;DR: Leaders don’t get bad news faster by asking for it — they get it faster by proving, in the moment of truth, that it’s safe and worthwhile to speak up. In Lean terms, this isn’t a communication problem —…
It was a real treat to hear Larry Culp, the CEO of General Electric and CEO of GE Aerospace, speak at the AME 2022 annual conference in Dallas. He recently reached the four-year mark of his tenure as GE’s first-ever…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #463 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Jim Benson, the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. He was previously a guest on Episodes…
My guest for Episode #462 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Professor John Grout, the former dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. He was recently a guest on “My Favorite Mistake” — Episode 186, so I…
“Simply put, we cannot get to zero harm without psychological safety.” I wrote that as part of this page on the Value Capture website: Psychological Safety and Its Essential Link to Continuous Improvement I’ve come to understand that psychological safety is a…
I’m sure I could be more mindful. To be honest, I’m not really sure what that means, though. That’s why I’m happy to have hosted a webinar that was presented by Dave Kippen as part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement…
