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Lean Blog Interviews — 236: Ted Stiles & Dr. John Toussaint Discussing #Lean

For episode #236, things are a little different than usual. Today, I wanted to share a video discussion between my friends Ted Stiles and John Toussaint, MD. Ted is a partner with the recruiting firm Stiles & Associates. John, of course, is the president…

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Lean Blog Interviews — 235: Sam MacPherson, The Green Beret Way to the Toyota Way

For the episode and more details, visit http://www.leanblog.org/audio235. If you’ve been a listener of my LeanBlog Podcast series, you might know that I normally record conversations and then publish them into the podcast feed. Today, I’m going to do my …

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Lean Blog Audio — You Got Them to Do What? Getting a Hospital to Dedicate

How many times do we hear people say things like“We don’t have time for Lean” or “We don’t have time for Kaizen“? It happens a lot, right? As I’ve said …

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Lean Blog Audio — Maybe We Should Call it “The Many Whys”

The “five” in the “five whys” methodology is not a magic number, be it Lean or Lean Startup approaches. http://leanblog.org/audio107 — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lean-blog-audio/support

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Lean Blog Audio — You Just Have to Ask Why Five Times?

Why do we need to move beyond “The Five Whys” into a more robust problem solving model for Lean or Lean Startup settings? http://leanblog.org/audio106 — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lean-blog-audio/support

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Lean Blog Interviews — 234: Mitch Cahn, President of Unionwear on Lean Manufacturing

Today’s guest is Mitch Cahn, president of Unionwear, a manufacturer of hats, bags, and apparel in Newark, NJ. I first learned about Mitch and his company because of a display they had at the Northeast LEAN Conference, which I blogged about here. What cau…

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Lean Blog Audio — The First Ever Instance of “Lean Doesn’t Apply to Us?”

In discussing Lean and working with people in different organizations, I so very often hear things like “we don’t build cars” or “we’re different.” I know I’m not the only …

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Lean Blog Audio — It’s Not #Lean to Have Dysfunctional Efficiency Targets

Lean healthcare really is a global movement. Last year, when I went to Japan, we had people in the group from all across Asia, Denmark, Canada, the U.S., and Saudi …

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Lean Blog Audio — Fighting Against “The Way We’ve Always Done It”

http://leanblog.org/audio103 Through our practice of Lean, we’re looking at processes and our management system, looking to identify waste and opportunities for improvement.Lean is about engaging people to have them ask …

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Lean Blog Audio — Automakers & Car Dealers Should Survey Customers

http://leanblog.org/audio102 The world (especially the world wide web) is full of surveys. Tell us how we’re doing! Your satisfaction is important to us! We see this so often, it’s easy …

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