GA 652 | Culture Before Technology with Hessam Vali
Most lean practitioners know the theory of constraints. Fewer apply it before they start fixing things. Hessam Vali, a manufacturing consult...
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20 of 173 episodesGA 651 | The Soup Stage of Transformation with Ben Morley
Most resistance to lean is blamed on the wrong thing. Ben Morley, an Air Force pilot turned Lean Six Sigma consultant, argues the tools are...
GA 650 | Train It Before You Trust It with David Osagie-Igiehon
Most continuous improvement practitioners are using AI the same way they use Google, and getting roughly the same quality of results. David...
GA 649 | Accountability Starts in the Mirror with Michael Caito
Most organizations have a strategy. Far fewer can actually execute one. Michael Caito built and sold a food delivery business decades before...
GA 648 | Discovering Lean in High School with Ted Pendergrass
Most lean practitioners spend their careers trying to change the minds of adults who have been doing things the same way for decades. Ted Pe...
GA 647 | Making Sleep a Priority with Tim Thomas
Most organizations measure productivity, absenteeism, and safety incidents without ever asking what all three have in common. Tim Thomas, a...
GA 646 | Connect Before You Correct with Royden Johnson and Luc van Merrienboer
Culture shapes how people receive change, and nowhere is that clearer than on a shop floor where history, language, and moral authority all...
GA 645 | Why Leadership Is Failing with Keith Wyche
Trust in leadership has been declining for decades, and Keith Wyche has the research to prove it. A 40-year veteran of AT&T, IBM, and Wa...
GA 644 | Defining Propaganda with Owen Fitzpatrick
Most leaders assume that the right argument, delivered clearly, will change minds. Owen Fitzpatrick has spent 30 years studying why that ass...
GA 643 | Asking Better Questions with Kabrina Ashley
Most organizations say they want high performers, yet quietly punish them for being too valuable to lose. Kabrina Ashley, a coach and behavi...
GA 642 | The Future of Work with Jonathan David Lewis
Something fundamental has shifted in how people relate to work, and most leaders are still operating from a story that the workforce has alr...
GA 641 | What Makes a Good Teammate with Eric Reveno
Most organizations spend enormous energy developing leaders and almost none developing teammates. Stanford Associate Head Men’s Basket...
GA 640 | Optimistic Fear with Cornelia Choe
Most leaders think their biggest risk is making the wrong call. Cornelia Choe argues the real danger comes earlier, when a leader stops ques...
GA 639 | Putting the Customer First with Slaytor Baldwin
A suppressor manufacturer in Utah started its lean transformation about a year ago. Twelve months later, inventory turns had doubled, change...
GA 638 | Separating Risk from Being Reckless with George Barrios
  Confidence and arrogance can look identical from the outside. George Barrios has spent a career in rooms where the difference mattere...
GA 637 | Developing Organizational Maturity with Norman Wolfe
Most organizations have the systems. They have the processes, the KPIs, the structured meetings, the strategic plans. And they are still stu...
GA 636 | Taking Control of Your Life with Joel Steele
Most people trying to improve their lives are doing it without a clear picture of what they are building toward. For Joel Steele, a near-mis...
GA 635 | Emotions Are Not the Enemy with D. Earl Johnston
Most continuous improvement practitioners are trained to prize logic and treat emotion as noise in the system. D. Earl Johnston spent nine y...
GA 634 | Doubling Profits in 90 Days with Ben Hansen
This week’s guest is Ben Hansen. Ron and Ben discussed how Ben helps companies improve their profit margins, dealing with “profi...
GA 633 | Be Curious and Seek Knowledge with Andy Olrich
This week’s guest is Andy Olrich. Ron and Andy discussed the roles of people and tools in continuous improvement, what NOT to do when...