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Lean Blog Audio — 5 Big Lean Questions with Mark Graban: Purpose, Misconceptions, and the Path Forward

The blog post In this episode, Mark Graban flips roles and becomes the guest—answering five core Lean questions posed by longtime Lean thinker Tim McMahon of the A Lean Journey …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 331: Recovering from Workplace Bullying—and What Leaders Often Miss (Andy Regal)

My guest for Episode #331 of My Favorite Mistake is Andy Regal, a longtime media executive whose career has included leadership roles at The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Consumer Reports, …

Habitual Excellence

Habitual Excellence — 98: Moving Upstream to Preserve Health

Welcome to Episode #98 of Habitual Excellence, presented by Value Capture. In this inspiring episode, Geoff Webster, Chair of the Pittsburgh Futures Collaborative, and Ken Segel explore what it takes to …

Lean Blog Audio

Lean Blog Audio — Lean Without Layoffs: The Commitment That Makes Continuous Improvement Work

The blog post In this episode, Mark Graban explores one of the most misunderstood — and most essential — principles of Lean: the commitment to no layoffs due to improvement. …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 3: How a Landing Gear Error Was Caught Before Disaster

In this Mistake of the Week, Mark Graban breaks down an incident involving an American Airlines A319 on final approach to Phoenix — captured on video with its landing gear …

Lean Blog Interviews

Lean Blog — 537: How Don Kieffer Applies Toyota Thinking to Modern Knowledge Work

Don Kieffer has spent more than fifty years redesigning how real work gets done. In this episode, he explains why so many improvement efforts stall—and how Dynamic Work Design offers …

Lean Blog Audio

Lean Blog Audio — Stop Forcing Change: Use These Motivational Interviewing Questions Instead

The blog post In this episode, Mark Graban explores why so many organizational change efforts stall—not because people are resistant, but because leaders rely on telling instead of asking. Drawing …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 330: Why Curiosity Drives Better Leadership (Debra Clary)

My guest for Episode #330 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Debra Clary, a leadership strategist, researcher, and executive coach with more than four decades of experience at organizations including Frito-Lay, …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 329: From Toxic Culture to Empathic Leadership: Lessons in Empathy and Accountability (Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller)

My guest for Episode #329 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller, a TEDx speaker, empathy and leadership expert, and author of The Empathic Leader: How EQ via Empathy …

Lean Blog Audio

Lean Blog Audio — GE’s Larry Culp: Why Lean Thinking Starts with Safety and Respect for People

The blog post This episode looks at how GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp grounds Lean leadership in two fundamentals: safety and respect for people. Drawing on his recent appearance on …

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