Teachers of lean practice emphasize the importance of human interaction and some even eschew the idea of automating processes. Lauren Hisey has a very different perspective when it comes to our relationship with the machines that are everywhere – es…
At the edges of lean are the practices that look just like lean – but the people who practice them don’t think of themselves as lean practitioners. My guest is Brandon Williams of LeadTAC. Brandon was an F-15 pilot for the US Air Force, and in this p…
In lean thinking, we talk a lot about respect for people. And that means we need to understand the physical and mental conditions affecting the people we work with. I know that my training as a lean thinking, continuous improvement professional inc…
How can you use lean thinking with your children? Karidja Sakanogo, and Sam Morgan, two deeply engaged continuous improvement thinkers, share how they have taken lean thinking home to the family. We also talk about the challenges of raising Black and bi…
Every weekday morning at 10 AM Eastern, women from all over the world meet on Zoom for 30 minutes. All these women are practitioners of continuous improvement, lean or six sigma. Who are they? Why are they meeting? And who got this started?
In this inau…
My guest for episode #218 is Karen Kiel-Rosser, Vice President/Quality Improvement Officer at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Iowa. You can see her full bio below in this post. You might remember Karen from a recent post where she told a great story about…
Podcasts are sponsored by KaiNexus and their continuous improvement software platform — www.KaiNexus.com Our guest today is Alan G. Robinson, PhD, an award-winning author, educator, researcher and consultant. He has co-authored six books, including Mode…
Podcasts are sponsored by KaiNexus and their continuous improvement software platform — www.KaiNexus.com Returning to the podcast after his first appearance in Episode #188 is Daniel T. Jones, founder and chairman of the UK-based Lean Enterprise Academy…
Today’s guest is my friend John Ervin and we were able to sit down together here in San Antonio to record this episode. John has about 20 years of healthcare leadership experience, including military medicine and the civilian sector. He’s been a manager …
Today’s guest is Michael Ballé, an author of many novels about Lean management, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. He joins us for this episode from Paris (he shares many photos of “Paris moments” via his Twitter account @TheGembaCoach). Michael…
