Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement

Employee Complaints About Lean in Healthcare, Even at Some of the Best Organizations Last week, I blogged about some employee complaints related to rotating day and night shifts at the Toyota San Ant...

4 Feb 20188min

Somebody *Did* Get Unjustly Fired in Hawaii, But System Problems Should be Blamed TL;DR Summary: "Employee 1" (the guy who pushed the "wrong" button) got fired. But the FCC report says: "The report f...

4 Feb 20188min

I often get asked a question along the lines of "So, what exactly do you do?" Today, I give some updates about my various projects and partnerships, including continuing with KaiNexus (with a differen...

22 Jan 20185min

I've written about many of these ideas and themes before in various blog posts, but I wanted to consolidate my thoughts on the Lean concept of "standardized work" in a single place. This is partly for...

18 Jan 201815min

What We're Looking Forward to Learning at the Toyota Plant Tour Tomorrow, with the entire KaiNexus team, I'm going to visit the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio, the plant referred TMMTX. The 15 of ...

16 Jan 201811min

What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare in 1996 http://www.leanblog.org/audio244 When the book Lean Thinking (by Jim Womack and Dan Jones) was originally published in 1996, it seems like...

15 Jan 20184min

The Response to the Hawaii False Alarm Can't End With Firing Someone -- This and other nuclear threats due to bad systems http://www.leanblog.org/audio243 Saturday, you might have seen the news about...

14 Jan 201816min

Did Toyota's Mindset Really Leave the (Now) Tesla Building? Tesla builds cars in what used to be the NUMMI factory, a joint venture between Toyota and GM (which meant it was run as a Toyota plant wit...

5 Dec 201725min