Tag: Psychological Safety

How to Cut Through Workplace Chaos: Nelson Repenning on Lean, Flow...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #538 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Nelson Repenning, Faculty Director...

Building Excellence Through Quality and Psychological Safety — ASQ Cincinnati 2025...

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Listen: In this special bonus episode of Lean Blog Interviews, Mark Graban is joined by C.J. Kaufman, Education Chair for the ASQ Cincinnati Section, to...

Why Care: Building Respectful Lean Cultures with Caroline Greenlee & Chris...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for Episode #537 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Caroline Greenlee and Chris...

Plan, Do, Check, Act… or Plan, Do, Cover Your A**? Leadership...

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Lean thinkers love their acronyms, I guess. PDCA -- Plan, Do, Check, Act -- is one of the classics. Or we could argue about...

Speaking at the 2025 Lean Solutions Summit: Why Culture Comes Before...

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I'm excited to announce that I'll be speaking at the 2025 Lean Solutions Summit, which will take place September 24-26 in Detroit, Michigan. This...

Five Years of My Favorite Mistake: Lean, Toyota, and the Human...

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When I launched the My Favorite Mistake podcast in September 2020, I hoped to create space for leaders and innovators to share the moments...

KaiNexus Values: How a Startup Built a Culture That Scales (and...

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A lot of companies "define" their values by gathering the leadership team in a room, tossing around words like "integrity" or "excellence," and selecting...

Fear and Futility: Two Barriers to Improvement (and How Leaders Can...

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Have you ever seen a problem at work but decided not to say anything? Maybe you were worried about the reaction (fear). Or maybe...

Lean Lessons from Japan: Mindsets, Culture, and the Challenge of Speaking...

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This article is based on my recent Catalysis webinar, "Lean Lessons from Japan: Mindsets, Culture, and the Challenge of Speaking Up." The session was...

Three Ways Pressure Warps Performance Metrics–and What Leaders Must Do Instead

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Accurate data is essential in any system--for diagnosing problems, guiding decisions, and driving improvement. But when leaders react poorly to uncomfortable data, the message...

Kakorrhaphiophobia: How Fear of Failure Sabotages Continuous Improvement and Innovation

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When I first came across the word kakorrhaphiophobia, I thought it might be one of those obscure terms you learn once and never use...

This Week’s Medical Mistakes from Around the World: Asking “Why?” Instead...

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Each week, I keep an eye out for stories that help us learn--and teach--about the systemic nature of mistakes in healthcare. Well, actually Google...
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