# Taiichi Ohno

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47| Develop Leaders the Toyota Way: Lessons from Kan-Pro Senior Leadership Development [with Isao Yoshino]

A global economic crisis is dragging down sales. Departments are working in silos and leaders at all levels are arguing about priorities.  Managers are too busy to coach their teams. You might think this describes your organization today—and it was the exact situation Toyota faced nearly 50 years…

S3E9: From Symptoms To Root Cause - A Leader’s Guide To Problem Solving

Send us Fan Mail Ever feel like your team is playing whack-a-mole with issues that keep coming back? We dive into a practical, leader-ready system for turning chaos into continuous improvement by defining problems clearly, separating facts from opinions, and focusing on prevention instead of blame …

S2E5 - TPS Origins – The Thinking Production System

Send us Fan Mail What if the Toyota Production System was never about efficiency? In this episode, George Trachilis and Dr. Tom Lawless explore the true origins of TPS — and challenge one of the biggest misunderstandings in modern Lean thinking. Taiichi Ohno didn’t begin with Kanban. He didn’t begi…

When Processes Should Adapt | S4Ep3

In this episode I'm helping listeners not be too rigid with their processes through examples from Taiichi Ohno and my own lessons learned as an Emergency Medical Technician, Planning Section Chief, and Project Manager. People: "Let the flow manage the processes, and not let management manage the…

Ep101 The Hidden Cost of Familiarity

The biggest problem in most workplaces is not that waste is hidden, but that people gradually stop noticing it. Processes become familiar, inefficiencies become normalised, and teams become so focused on frameworks, categories and terminology that they lose sight of what continuous improvement was …

Manufacturing's Best-Kept Secret: How the MEP Network Helps Mid-Market Manufacturers Scale with Keith Gammill

In this episode, host Justin sits down with Keith Gammill, Director of Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions (AMS), the state's affiliate of the National MEP Network. Drawing on nearly 30 years in operations, quality, HR, and continuous improvement, Keith makes the case that the MEP is one of the rare g…

Blue Blazes S04E07: Coding After AI – featuring Jeffrey Palermo

In this episode, host Jonathan "J." Tower sat down with Jeffrey Palermo, CTO and Chairman at Clear Measure, to talk about what changes in software development once AI writes much of the code, and what doesn't. Jeffrey argues this shift is different in kind from the web, agile, mobile, and cloud tra…

Improve Your Business Through Kaizen: Boost your results with continuous improvement Audiobook by 50minutes

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Improve Your Business Through Kaizen: Boost your results with continuous improvementGenres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business DevelopmentAuthor: 50minutesNarrator: Sara WrightRelease date: 09…

AI Standard Work

Taiichi Ohno posted standard work sheets at every workstation, in the open, written by the operators themselves. He wasn't interested in whether people followed them. He was interested in how often they changed — because a standard that sat untouched meant the improvement engine had stopped. Freder…

How to Improve Analytical Thinking Skills

Any team can fill a whiteboard with ideas in an hour. What most teams skip is the analytical thinking that tells them if they're solving the right problem. An idea pointed at the wrong problem is wasted no matter how clever the idea is, and you usually don't discover this mistake for years. By th…