Why Every Machine Shop Should Take More Shop Tours | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E153
What if one of the fastest ways to improve your machine shop is walking through someone else’s?In this solo episode, Andrew shares lessons from recent shop tours, including visits to manufacturers in ...
29 Jun 18min
Your Memory Is Not a Management System | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E152
Andrew shares how a simple magnetic tag meant to prevent a security mistake failed, not because the idea was bad, but because the process wasn’t complete. From there, Andrew and Jay explore Kanban sys...
22 Jun 59min
The More You Optimize, The More Things Break | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E151
A single drop of coolant shut down an overnight production run that should have been making parts for hours. Nothing crashed or was broken, yet the machine stopped, production stopped, and the schedul...
15 Jun 47min
The Hidden Cost of Being the Easy Button (and 14 other lessons from Japan) | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E150
Andrew returns from Japan with 15 lessons that challenged the way he thinks about leadership, training, standards, and continuous improvement. These include thoughts on how leaders accidentally become...
8 Jun 25min
Why Great Companies Can’t Be Copied | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E149
What happens when an iconic brand starts fighting its own fans?This week, Andrew and Jay discuss Fender’s controversial cease-and-desist campaign against Strat-style guitar builders and discuss the di...
1 Jun 56min
Six Types of Working Genius (w/ John Grimsmo) | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E148
Jay welcomes John Grimsmo of Grimsmo Knives for a wide-ranging conversation on leadership, manufacturing culture, lean systems, and the Six Types of Working Genius assessment. Fresh off implementing t...
25 Mai 45min
Is A Good Leader A Dictator? | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E147
Is a good leader a dictator? In this episode, Jay and Andrew wrestle with the tension between decisive leadership and collaborative growth. What starts as a customer support question turns into a deep...
18 Mai 1h
The Dangerous Line Between Confidence and Delusion in Business | Lean Built - Manufacturing Freedom E146
Andrew and Jay explore the tension between confidence and delusion in entrepreneurship, the challenge of scaling a company without losing yourself, and the reality that what got you here might not get...
11 Mai 41min
