
Ep 67 Continuous Improvement and Task Balancing with Kevin Gazzara
One of the secrets of getting to “flow” in a work process is to “level the load.“ Not overburdening the process and managing the natural volatility of inputs has a remarkable effect on productivity. ...
21 Sep 202258min

Ep 66 Continuous Improvement and Becoming a Coach with Sam Morgan
The role of a good coach in continuous improvement is a key to CI success. At some point, we all need to step into the role of a coach whether as a leader, a professional coach, or simply coaching oth...
14 Sep 202242min

Ep 65 Continuous Improvement and Crowdsourcing Great Decisions with Soushiant Zangenahpour
In Lean, we know the value of getting ideas from the people who are doing the work, especially when it comes to ideas for improvement. But what happens when your organization feels like it is too big ...
7 Sep 202246min

Ep 64 Continuously Improving Your Cognitive Functions with ST Rappaport
Practicing Lean changes your brain. Do you agree? I know for me, repeating the patterns of the Plan-Do-Check-Act, or the pattern of the improvement kata, and because of using and adapting lean tools, ...
31 Aug 202242min

Ep 63 Continuous Improvement and the CFO Who Didn’t like Math with Kevin Palmieri
In continuous improvement, we love our numbers. Data is the bedrock of knowing what our current situation is, and whether we are improving. Kevin Palmieri is the CFO, Founder & Co-Host of Next Level U...
24 Aug 202244min

Ep 62 Continuous Improvement and Brain Injury Recovery with Kaj Smit
Kaj Smit was a typical student with a typical life – until the day he woke up in a hospital and learned he had suffered two brain hemorrhages. Physically he had to start over again and mentally he wa...
17 Aug 202250min

Ep 61 Continuously Improving Prioritization with Adam Walker
Today we're talking about knowing your priorities and achieving your goals. So often we get bogged down in the day-to-day, and we lose sight of what's important to us. In this episode, we're going to ...
10 Aug 202238min

Ep 60 Continuous Improvement and the Art of Business with Fiona Valentine
In this episode, Fiona Valentine joined me. We've talked a lot about what continuous improvers can learn from artists, and about how and why we can’t practice continuous improvement without building o...
3 Aug 202241min



















