Toyota Production System: Muda, Andon Cords and a Post-Katrina Rebuild
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Toyota Production System took its biggest idea not from Ford or General Motors but from the ...
28 Loka 24min
Kanban Cards: Spitfire Parts Bins, Supermarket Shelves and Ohno's Rules
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Kanban, Japanese for signboard or visual signal, is the subject of this episode, which traces th...
28 Loka 19min
Strength Training Science: Milo's Calf, Motor Units and 85-Year-Olds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Strength training's blueprint, this episode argues, goes back to the legend of the wrestler Milo...
28 Loka 22min
Spaced Repetition: Spitzer's 3,600 Iowa Students to Alzheimer's Recall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Forgetting, the episode argues, is the brain's energy-saving cleanup system, and spaced repetiti...
28 Loka 24min
The Socratic Method: From the Delphi Oracle to Fishbowl Seminars and CBT
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the fifth century BC, a friend of Socrates asked the Oracle of Delphi whether anyone in Greec...
28 Loka 20min
Foot-in-the-Door Technique: From a Tiny Window Sign to a Giant Yard Sign
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The foot-in-the-door technique takes its name from mid-century door-to-door salesmen who wedged ...
28 Loka 26min
Atul Gawande's Checklist Manifesto: A Frozen-Pond Rescue and Expert Ego
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Atul Gawande's 2009 book The Checklist Manifesto grew out of a medical miracle: a young child pu...
28 Loka 19min
Servant Leadership: Robert Greenleaf, a Hermann Hesse Novel and Its Critics
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Servant leadership flips the usual org chart: the leader prioritizes employees' needs, developme...
28 Loka 21min
