The One Where I was Interviewed on a Detroit Radio Station
I was invited to be a guest on a Detroit radio talk show that's hosted by Dr. Paul Reeves, a show called "Dr.…
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A Toyota Leader on Misunderstandings About the Toyota Production System
Thanks to Pablo Alvarez Flores, who posted this video on LinkedIn with an invitation for me to share my comments…
“But TPS Doesn’t Apply to Us….”
Here is my latest article for "The Lean Post" and the Lean Enterprise Institute:
But TPS Doesn't Apply to…
Podcast #334 – Barry McCarthy on Toyota and “Development…
Joining me for Episode #334, all the way from Australia, is Barry McCarthy. Barry spent more than 15 years in…
When “Red Beads” Lead to What Looks Like Workplace Discrimination
Quite often, I used the famed "Red Bead Game" (a.k.a. the "Red Bead Experiment") that was made famous by W.…
Podcast #333 – Jean-Marc Legentil and Marc-Olivier Legentil, The Toyota Kata…
Marc-Olivier and Jean-Marc at KataCon 5 this week
My guests for Episode #333 are Jean-Marc Legentil and…
Podcast #332 – Jason Burt, on Being Coached by Toyota
Joining me today for Episode #332 is Jason Burt, owner of EHIP Consulting. Jason is a Lean consultant and business…
Podcast #330 – Christoph Roser, His Grand Tour of Japanese Automakers
Joining me today for Episode #330 of the podcast is Christoph Roser, a professor of production management…
Toyota as a “People Development Company”
When I had the chance to go back to Japan last October with Honsha, there was a big focus on what the former…
Highlights from our Lean Event Tour at Toyota Part 1 on Our Symposium on Learning…
Last week was our first "Symposium on Learning Organizations" where we brought together 40 people with diverse…
#TBT: The Term “Lean Production” is Now 30 Years Old A look back at a…
Today is a throwback to a throwback, in a way. Five years ago, I blogged about how the term "Lean Production" was…
A Look Back at Posts About Visiting Toyota Plants in Texas and Japan
Today, I'll be touring the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio again, the plant known as TMMTX. I'm there with our…
More on Teaching TQM, TPS, Lean, and Kaizen to Doctors in Japan Part 3 in a series…
In the third and final part of this series, I share more about how Toyota teaches about TPS and TQM... and how they…
How Toyota Teaches a Japanese Hospital’s Doctors About TQM Part 2 in a…
Last week, I wrote about the influence of Total Quality Management (TQM) on Toyota -- in the past and the present,…
TQM at Toyota and the Influence on Lean – Past and Present, Japan and U.S. …
I'm very excited to be leaving for Japan for another study trip in just over a month. This will be my second trip…
Podcast #311 – Jess Orr, #Lean Leadership Lessons from Toyota and Beyond
My guest for Episode 311 is Jess Orr, a continuous improvement practitioner at WestRock, a large paper and…
The Catch-22 of #Lean & Kaizen: You Get More ROI by NOT Focusing Only on…
This post builds off of a little rant I went on over on LinkedIn. I wrote:
The Catch-22 of "Lean" training and…
Comparing Toyota’s Latest Ramp Up to Tesla’s
The first thing that prompted me to write this post is an interesting article about Toyota and their Georgetown,…