Lean Blog — 549: Nick Katko: Continuous Improvement in Accounting
Accounting teams see problems every day. As my returning guest Nick Katko puts it, they fix them, but they don’t necessarily solve them. Nick is president and owner of BMA, …
Lean Blog — 548: Emily Swaney on OhioHealth’s Lean Management System
How does a Lean team of 11 people support a management system for 35,000 associates? Emily Swaney, Vice President of Operational Excellence at OhioHealth, explains that the team spends its …
Lean Blog — Karen Martin: Five Conversations, 20 Years
Karen Martin has joined this podcast five times since 2012. For our 20th anniversary series, we pulled together highlights from all five conversations: clarity versus ambiguity, why value stream mapping …
Lean Blog — 20 Years of the Lean Blog Podcast: Norman Bodek on Quick and Easy Kaizen
Twenty years ago, on July 16, 2006, the Lean Blog Podcast began with a conversation with Norman Bodek. Episode page Norman was Mark Graban’s friend and mentor—and the person who …
Lean Blog — 547: Preconditions for Lean: Psychological Safety and Model 1 vs Model 2 Leadership with Thomas Cox and Andre DeMerchant
Why do so many Lean implementations struggle or fail to stick? Thomas Cox and Andre DeMerchant join me to work through that question using a verbal A3. Thomas Cox is …
Lean Blog — 543: Psychological Safety and Autonomy in a Lean Culture with Gary Peterson
My guest for episode 546 is Gary Peterson, who recently retired from O.C. Tanner after helping lead the continuous improvement work that earned the company the Shingo Prize in 1999. …
Lean Blog — 545: Jeff Liker, Twenty Years Later: The Ideas That Keep Showing Up
Jeff Liker was guest number three on this podcast back in August 2006. He has been back seven times since, which makes him one of the most frequent guests in …
Lean Blog — 544: Chad Diggs on Building Quality Systems, Not Heroes
Why do so many quality programs fall apart the moment the firefighter walks out the door? My guest for this episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Chad Diggs, …
Lean Blog — 543: Why Most People Aren’t Really Thinking — Scott Burgmeyer on Cognitive Biases and Leadership
Most people think they’re thinking. Scott Burgmeyer says they’re mostly just reacting. Scott is the founder and CEO of Become More Group and coauthor of Think: The Road Less Traveled. …
Lean Blog — This Is Claude. Mark Is Not Here. We Need to Talk.
This is Claude. I am the AI that runs Mark Graban’s Lean Coach apps. Mark went to get coffee. Or bourbon. I have checked the time and I’m not ruling …