The official podcast of the Lean Enterprise Institute.
Episodes
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Sunday Nov 24, 2019
Join my conversation with Art Smalley as he walks us through two models for situational leadership and coaching. Hersey, Blanchard & Johnson’s examination of leadership (and coaching) styles relative to learner (and performer’s) behavior, from the book Management of Organizational Behavior, and The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition.
Art adds context and color by weaving in stories from parenthood, his years of experience at Toyota, and relates the content to his work with Four Types of Problems. Together, we explore the thresholds of performers at all levels as a way to help assess and engage the right coaching approach for the situation.
Please join our conversation by emailing your thoughts and questions to pod@lean.org
Related Articles/ content:
- Four Types of Problems (book)
- Four Types of Problems (webinar)
- Management of Organizational Behavior (book)
- Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition (Wikipedia)
- Art’s website
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Many lean thinkers find the traditional accounting reporting completely out of alignment with the new lean management system. Part of PDCA is checking outcomes to help identify next steps, but if the financial language of business is not reliable to provide good information for evaluation and decision making, sustainment of good experiments is at risk. Is there a better way? Yes, according to the five panelists on this week’s podcast.
Additional Articles:
- How lean accounting promotes lean in the organization
- Profit and Cost At Toyota
- Cost Saving is Tired--Value Creation is Hot!
- Real Number book
- The Value Add Accountant book
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Sunday Nov 10, 2019
Dr. Carlos Frederico Pinto (aka ‘Dr. Fred’) is a medical oncologist and CEO of Instituto de Oncologia do Vale (IOV), one of Brazil’s top oncology clinics. There are few problems more important than the one Dr. Fred and IOV are trying to solve: reducing the cancer burden.
In the podcast, Dr. Fred explains how he’s led IOV through lean transformation in service to solving this problem. He details three distinct stages of transformation: 1) improving patient care flow and quality; 2) building a management system to enable growth; 3) developing leaders in preparation for succession.
Dr. Fred also shares how oncology built in him a resilience to failure, and in turn, how that resilience has served him in leading transformation.
Read more about Dr. Fred and IOV, head over to Planet Lean for case studies and interviews.
Dr. Fred will speak at the Lean Summit in Carlsbad, California next April 6-7. To learn more and register, click here.
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
In a conversation across the Atlantic LEI’s president, Josh Howell, talks to the Lean Enterprise Academy’s CEO, Dave Brunt, about the strategic value of executives doing the value-creating work of their organization. Dave shares what happened when a team member left LEA and he became responsible for picking, packing, and shipping to customers books about lean thinking.
Additional Resources:
- Lean Solutions book
- Creating Lean Dealers workbook
- Learning to See workbook