Lean Blog Interviews, by Mark Graban
Episode #91 is a very special one-on-one conversation with Dr. Stephen Covey, recorded at the Shingo Prize Conference in Salt Lake City last week. My main question to Dr. Covey was to ask his thoughts on Toyota’s “Respect for People” principle, sometimes…
Podcast #90 features Tim Turner, a team leader at Toyota’s factory in Georgetown Kentucky (aka TMMK or Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky). He is the author, along with a team of co-workers, of the new book called “One Team On All Levels: The Story Of T…
Our guest for Podcast #89 is Keith Russell, a Global Continuous Improvement Leader at AstraZeneca R&D. I met Keith at a recent Lean & Six Sigma conference for Pharma R&D where we both presented. Keith has substantial in-house R&D experience across the en…
Episode #88 is a conversation with a returning guest, Jim Baran of the firm Value Stream Leadership (he is @leanVSL on Twitter, also). His sites include the Lean Career Compass and his Lean Career Guide blog. In this podcast, Jim talks about a shift in h…
#87 is a discussion with a returning guest, Steven J. Spear, PhD, author of the outstanding book “Chasing the Rabbit.” The book is due to be re-released in May under a new title, “The High-Velocity Edge.” In this podcast, we talk about an upcoming worksh…
Episode #86 is a conversation with David Lawrence Sundahl, PhD, Managing Director of Rule 4 Consulting (www.rule4consulting.com). They are a firm that works with healthcare providers to drive improvements using Lean and what they call “Adaptive Design” m…
Episode #85 is a conversation with David Meier, a former Toyota Georgetown Group Leader and the co-author of the books “Toyota Way Fieldbook” and “Toyota Talent.” We discuss the recent quality problems that Toyota is facing and we get a lean thinker’s pe…
Episode 84 is audio from Video Podcast #10 (available on iTunes, YouTube, or leanvideopocast.org). This is a conversation with Karl Wadensten, President of VIBCO, a manufacturer in Wyoming, R.I. Here, we talk about his radio show, “The Lean Nation,” whic…
Podcast #83 is an in-depth conversation with Jim D’Addario, the CEO of D’Addario, a manufacturer of guitar strings, drum heads, and other musical accessories. Jim and his family company were featured on CNN late last year, highlighting how lean manufactu…
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. In this episode, he talks about what he’s learned from visiting manufacturing plants a…
