Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond Norman Bodek on the 1st Anniversary of the Podcast *
Jul 29, 2007
34:33
Show notes: https://www.leanblog.org/28
Remastered audio June 2021
LeanBlog Podcast #28 features our friend and frequent guest, Norman Bodek, noted lean author, consultant, and President of PCS Press. This also celebrates the 1 year anniversary of the Podcast, which featured Norman as our first guest. As I've given him credit for previously, the Podcast really was Norman's idea when he said I should do "radio interviews" with him. Thankfully, this has turned into a series of interviews with others that I have enjoyed immensely.
- Summary of Norman's talk at the TWI Summit and the "pledge of continuous improvement."
- Gantt's book "Organizing Work" (via Google Books) -- the stakeholder groups that a business must serve (including community)
- Lifetime employment and the obligation for good management
- Can you have a workplace with no bosses? Example of a Skippy peanut butter plant
- Is the ultimate goal automation? Norman's thoughts on that
- Managers' resistance to change as a separate type of waste?
- Being on the floor all the time as a manager
- Norman talking about "conscious learning" (his next book)