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Lean Blog Audio is a short-form podcast featuring audio versions of articles from LeanBlog.org, written, read, and expanded by Mark Graban.
Each episode explores practical Lean thinking, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and leadership—through real-world examples from healthcare, manufacturing, startups, and other complex work environments.
Topics include learning from mistakes, reducing fear and blame, improving systems, and using data thoughtfully through tools like Process Behavior Charts. Episodes often go beyond the original blog post, adding fresh context and reflections.
Each episode explores practical Lean thinking, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and leadership—through real-world examples from healthcare, manufacturing, startups, and other complex work environments.
Topics include learning from mistakes, reducing fear and blame, improving systems, and using data thoughtfully through tools like Process Behavior Charts. Episodes often go beyond the original blog post, adding fresh context and reflections.
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every 16 days
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8 minutes
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Engels
Verenigde Staten
475 afleveringen
sinds 5 januari 2015
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In this episode, I read my recent post about a visit to Toyota’s plant in Durban, South Africa, before I spoke at the KZN Lean Conference. I asked to see one thing: how the andon system works there and how it compares to other Toyota plants I’ve visited.
About a year ago, the plant replaced the ove…
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In July 2013, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn stopped a test drive to lecture his engineers about paint that was less than a millimeter too thick. A year later, he complained to Der Spiegel that his team never pushed back on him -- that they should have jumped on his desk.
That same year, Bob Lutz…
What does it really mean when a problem “comes back” after a team thought it had been solved?
In this episode, Mark Graban reads his article, “We Thought We Solved That: The Art and Judgment Calls in the PDSA Cycle.” He examines how a frustrated executive’s question—“Why did the problem come back?”…
A construction worker named Sean Dow was working on the 22nd floor of Pfizer’s former Manhattan headquarters, a massive office building now being converted into residential apartments with additional floors being added.
Dow noticed cracks in a concrete slab. When he investigated further, he found a…
A title change is not a culture change. In this episode, Mark Graban draws on his early experience at GM in the mid-1990s — where "foreman" became "team coordinator" overnight without anything else changing — to explore why renaming supervisors with Lean-sounding titles so often…
Blog post with links
Three years ago, The Mistakes That Make Us came out. Around the same time, Elisabeth Swan published Picture Yourself a Leader. Both books' third birthdays felt like a decent reason to get together and talk.
On Thursday, May 7, at 1 PM ET, Elisabeth and I are co-hosting a live e…
Most AI tools answer your question with a 500-word essay full of numbered steps. You nod, close the tab, and carry on doing what you were already doing. The Lean Hospitals Coach is built around the opposite instinct -- asking questions before giving answers, the way good coaching actually works.
Ch…
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TL;DR: A sound check, live song requests, and a naming regret — what watching Brandi Carlile perform taught me about specific problem-solving, vulnerability, and continuous improvement.
My wife and I got to see the amazing Brandi Carlile perform near Chicago on Friday night.
She …
The blog post
TL;DR: Deming and Toyota's Fujio Cho asked the same uncomfortable question: why do management systems destroy motivation in people who started out wanting to do good work? The answer points to practices leaders can actually change.
Check part 1 of this series in episode 464,
Read the blog post
TL;DR: In a 1993 speech, Toyota leader Fujio Cho said organizations can create their own Lean systems, but success depends on three principles: leaders going to the gemba, asking “why” to learn from problems, and respecting and motivating people — not copying Lean tools.
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