Lean Blog Audio
Mark Graban
Lean Blog Audio features Mark Graban reading and expanding on LeanBlog.org posts. Explore real-world lessons on Lean thinking, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and performance metrics like Process Behavior Charts. Learn how leaders in healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond create cultures of learning, reduce fear, and drive better results.
Listen and learn: leanblog.org/audio
Listen and learn: leanblog.org/audio
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jan 20, 2015 • 7min
Looking back at the Toyota Tsutsumi plant tour, part 1
A look back at my visit to a Toyota plant in Japan, with a group of global healthcare leaders, in November 2014.
Jan 19, 2015 • 6min
Putting Up Signs and Shooting Down Ideas
It's sad and unfortunate when leaders SAY they want a culture of continuous improvement, but don't walk the walk.
Jan 18, 2015 • 11min
Parallels Between Personal Training and Lean Coaching
Working with a personal fitness trainer has helped me see parallels to what I do with Lean... how my clients maybe see the world and things that I can do better as a coach, trainer, mentor, and consultant.I don't often get to be on the "coachee" side of the coaching equation. When I work with other consultants, like Karen Martin, that gives me a chance to get coached -- receiving positive feedback and being challenged to improve. When I've used a speaking coach, Kathryn Partan, it's very helpful because I try to improve and I see how somebody else approaches coaching and client work.
Jan 15, 2015 • 7min
The Original Intent of My GM Standup Meeting
Continuing the“Throwback Thursday” theme for the 10th anniversary of my blog, today’s post looks back at and builds upon one of my favorites from 2007. The post is a “GM War Story” from 1995 when I was just starting my career:
“GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers)”
You can hearthat in episode 1 of this podcast - http://www.leanblog.org/audio1
Jan 14, 2015 • 8min
Strategy Deployment as a Series of Hypotheses - Pt 1
It seems to me that a strategy deployment process can be described as a series of hypotheses that are tested over time. Strategy deployment is a high-level annual PDSA cycle that contains embedded PDSA cycles of analysis, improvement, measurement, and adjustment.
http://leanblog.org/audio7
Jan 13, 2015 • 9min
Fear of speaking up is a broader problem,
A post from 1/13/15. Why are healthcare professionals afraid to speak up, in military medicine or other settings?
http://leanblog.org/audio6
Jan 12, 2015 • 9min
Lessons from the Football Coaching and Leadership
A post from 1/12/15, looking at how the two teams in the College Football Playoff championship game are doing some things differently than the way things have always been done.
http://leanblog.org/audio5
Jan 11, 2015 • 8min
GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers)
A post from 2007... I was thinking back to some first-hand experience I had when I started my career at a GM engine plant, circa 1995. It’s the most blatant example of someone intentionally distorting data that I’ve ever seen… but it’s totally understandable. I blame the senior leaders, not the front-line supervisor in this case...,
Jan 8, 2015 • 7min
Throwback Thursday: Presenting Lean to Senior
Looking back at two slides Mark used about 10 years when introducing Lean to healthcare executives
http://leanblog.org/audio3
Jan 7, 2015 • 6min
"Four Days With Dr. Deming"
Mark describes some key points from the book "Four Days With Dr. Deming." Learn more at http://www.leanblog.org/audio2
