Tag: Podcast

Podcasts on Lean, Leadership, and Continuous Improvement

The Lean Blog Interviews Podcast explores leadership, systems, and continuous improvement through thoughtful conversations with practitioners, executives, authors, and researchers. These episodes go beyond tools to examine how organizations really improve—through better leadership behaviors, respect for people, learning from mistakes, and sound management systems. This archive brings together podcast episodes focused on Lean, healthcare, Toyota, Deming, psychological safety, and what it actually takes to sustain improvement over time.

Lean Blog Podcast #90 – Tim Turner on Toyota Kentucky (TMMK)...

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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...

LeanBlog Podcast #89 – Keith Russell, Lean in Pharmaceuticals Research &...

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Our guest for Podcast #89 is Keith Russell, a Global Continuous Improvement Leader at AstraZeneca R&D. I met Keith at a recent Lean &...

LeanBlog Podcast #88 – Jim Baran on Lean Talent Management

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Episode #88 is a conversation with a returning guest, Jim Baran of the firm Career Kaizen  (he is @CareerKaizen on Twitter, also).   In...

Steven Spear on High-Velocity Healthcare, Lean Lessons & Toyota’s Quality Crisis

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Episode #87 is a discussion with a returning guest, Steven J. Spear, DBA, author of the outstanding book Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders...

David Sundahl on Adaptive Design, Scientific Thinking & Lean in Healthcare

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Episode #86 is a conversation with David Lawrence Sundahl, PhD, Managing Director of Rule 4 Consulting. They are a firm that works with healthcare...

David Meier on Toyota’s 2010 Quality Crisis: Facts, Bias & Lean...

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Episode #85 is a conversation with David Meier, a former Toyota Georgetown Group Leader and the co-author of the books The Toyota Way Fieldbook and...

Karl Wadensten on VIBCO’s Lean Transformation & The Lean Nation Radio...

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Episode 84 is audio from Video Podcast #10 (available on YouTube). This is a conversation with Karl Wadensten, President of VIBCO, a manufacturer in...

LeanBlog Video Podcast #10 – Karl Wadensten of VIBCO and The...

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Episode #10 is a conversation with Karl Wadensten, President of VIBCO, a manufacturer in Wyoming, R.I. Here, we talk about his radio show, "The...

CEO Jim D’Addario on Lean Manufacturing: Creating Jobs and Business Growth

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Podcast #83 is an in-depth conversation with Jim D'Addario, the CEO of D'Addario, Inc., a manufacturer of guitar strings, drum heads, and other musical...

LeanBlog Podcast #82: Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S.

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Podcast #82 is another discussion with with Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., a dentist from Jacksonville, Florida. He is a pioneer in using Lean methods...

Lean Outside Manufacturing: Rob Bryant on Quality and Improvement at CSC

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Podcast #81 is an interview with Rob Bryant, VP for Quality with CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation). In this podcast, we talk about how CSC,...

Joan Wellman on the Early Days of Lean Healthcare and Building...

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This episode is a discussion with Joan Wellman, of the consulting firm Joan Wellman & Associates. Joan is a real pioneer in the lean...
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