This archive collects videos, webinar recordings, livestreams, and video-based conversations focused on Lean leadership, continuous improvement, psychological safety, and learning from mistakes. These videos are meant to support reflection and practical application—not just passive viewing—across healthcare, manufacturing, and knowledge work.
Topics range from executive leadership behaviors and Kaizen to Deming, Toyota, and building cultures where people feel safe to speak up and improve.
Here is a video from Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario Canada about their Lean effort, the video is part of their main Lean page. The video starts with John Shook talking about the real definition of “Lean” (it’s…
Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Eric Ries, “Lean Startups: Doing More with Less” I was tipped off a while back to the work Eric Ries is doing around Lean concepts in startups (here is his blog). Eric says that it’s not…
I really enjoyed this PBS interview with with Dr. Jim Yong Kim, formerly of Harvard Medical School and now the new President of Dartmouth College. About 4 minutes into the video (or you can read the transcript). Dr. Kim does…
I’m a big Mike Judge fan, dating back to “Office Space” (OK, and back to Beavis and Butthead, even, I’ll admit). His sort of “sequel” to Office Space, “Extract,” is set in a factory. We don’t get too many movies…
Womack on Lean Management, A Live Web Event We are running an experiment at the Lean Enterprise Institute. Jim Womack, founder and chairman of LEI, will be doing a two-hour live video presentation on October 13 at 11 am eastern.…
Here are all of the videos, embedded from Fox News. Click here for a page with summaries of each. As of October 2011, you can view the videos on the Fox News website. What is ThedaCare? Paid Less…
This is a big day for Lean in healthcare, as here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their quality and cost improvement efforts (and results). I thought last night’s story (transcript) that aired on…
Health care’s infectious loss – Video – Business News Short post for today – but an important one. Here’s a great video from CNN last week about preventing patient infections with Lean (or as they called it “inspiration from Toyota”).…
Video #7 is a continuation of Episode #3 with Norman Bodek recounting his early trips to Japan and learning about kaizen, just in time, and Lean. For audio podcast episodes, please visit www.leanpodcast.org. For video podcasts, you can also go…
Here’s a fun video for a Saturday. In England, I love the Yo! Sushi chain of restaurants. It’s basically a continuous flow conveyor belt of sushi. You sit down and take what you want from the belt. The trays are…
This podcast is a continuation of my earlier interview (Video Podcast #4) with Matthew E. May, author of the Shingo Prize-winning book The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation. His most recent book, available since May, is In Pursuit…
This is an interview with Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., a dentist from Jacksonville, Florida. He is a pioneer in using Lean methods in the management of his dental practice. The book documents his learning journey for himself and his office…
