Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership

Deepening our Understanding of Lean Manufacturing and Respect for Humanity with Norm Bodek *

Listen Later

Remastered audio June 2021

Show notes https://www.leanblog.org/2  

Here is the second LeanBlog Podcast, featuring author and consultant Norman Bodek, President of PCS Press.

The first one can be found here and you can visit the main Podcast page, which includes information on how to subscribe via RSS or via Apple Podcasts.

LeanBlog Podcast #2 Show Notes and Timeline
  • More on airport near misses here and here
  • 2:55 Respect for people, the key difference between Toyota and American companies who aren't maximizing lean
  • 4:45 Why managers are responsible — not setting up the process properly and not giving power to the people who are in contact with the customer
  • 6:00 Toyota realized that to give people respect, you have to give them power
  • 6:30 In his first trip to Japan in 1981, Norman didn't see people waiting in the factories
  • 6:55 How “jidoka” and the separation of man and machines allowed one person to run seven machines
  • 8:21 Why it's OK to have the machine wait instead of having people wait
  • 8:31 Norman is speaking at the Lean Accounting Conference
  • 9:30 “The machine should be no bigger than five times the size of the part.”
  • 10:45 How do we get managers to take responsibility for the design of the system?
  • 11:55 How Fujio Cho changed the “line stop” by adding time buffers, so the whole factory doesn't shut down — why Taiichi Ohno wouldn't have liked that
  • 12:20 Ohno liked the whole plant to shut down because it forces you to find the root cause
  • 13:32 Why you don't criticize people as a manager, how to bring out creative ideas
  • 14:54 “Toyota was the most ruthless organization in Japan… Ohno was a terror… but from this comes the most humanistic management system.”
  • 15:34 “A Toyota manager is told to ask, not tell.”
  • 16:55 “Blame closes people up like an oyster.”
  • 18:39 Why we should want people to make their own work easier and more interesting
  • 19:25 “If we want to compete with the Toyotas of the world, we have to learn how to bring out the best of our people.”
  • 19:38 “We send work to China and Toyota comes here to make cars.”
  • 19:50 Discussion of Toyota's hiring approach and selectivity
  • 22:10 Our management system is broken…
  • 23:00 How healthcare is better about no layoff pledges along with lean and how
    • that helps
    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store
    Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and LeadershipBy Mark Graban
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6

    4.6

    46 ratings

    More shows like Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership

    View all
    Coaching for Leaders by Dave Stachowiak

    Coaching for Leaders

    1,466 Listeners

    The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk by Ryan Hawk

    The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

    1,314 Listeners

    Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership by Ron Pereira: Lean Thinker & Co-Founder of Gemba Academy

    Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership

    196 Listeners

    HBR IdeaCast by Harvard Business Review

    HBR IdeaCast

    1,830 Listeners

    Lean Blog Audio by Mark Graban

    Lean Blog Audio

    15 Listeners

    KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More by KaiNexus

    KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More

    27 Listeners

    The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett by DOAC

    The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

    8,854 Listeners

    Worklife with Adam Grant by TED

    Worklife with Adam Grant

    9,172 Listeners

    WLEI - Lean Enterprise Institute’s Podcast by Lean Enterprise Institute

    WLEI - Lean Enterprise Institute’s Podcast

    21 Listeners

    Lean Coffee Talk (formerly known as Lean Whiskey) by Mark Graban & Jamie Flinchbaugh

    Lean Coffee Talk (formerly known as Lean Whiskey)

    10 Listeners

    A Bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek

    A Bit of Optimism

    2,150 Listeners

    My Favorite Mistake: Business Lessons from Failures and Success by Mark Graban

    My Favorite Mistake: Business Lessons from Failures and Success

    39 Listeners

    The Lean Solutions Podcast by Patrick Adams

    The Lean Solutions Podcast

    19 Listeners

    Coaching Real Leaders by Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

    Coaching Real Leaders

    666 Listeners

    Huberman Lab by Scicomm Media

    Huberman Lab

    29,196 Listeners

    HBR On Leadership by Harvard Business Review

    HBR On Leadership

    158 Listeners

    Dare to Lead with Brené Brown by Vox Media Podcast Network

    Dare to Lead with Brené Brown

    330 Listeners

    Chain of Learning: Empowering Continuous Improvement and Lean Change Leaders by Katie Anderson

    Chain of Learning: Empowering Continuous Improvement and Lean Change Leaders

    27 Listeners