About this podcast
The Lean 911 Podcast is where you'll have a voice directly from the gemba. Host, Mark DeLuzio, President and CEO of Lean Horizons Consulting and the principal architect of the Danaher Business System, relies on his three decades of lean successes as well as his failures to answer your most challenging questions regarding your lean transformation.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 94 episodes
- Problem Solving XI: The Scientific Method, Toyota’s Approach to Problem Solving · 24 min · Episode 93What if the key to better problem-solving isn't having the right answers, but learning how to ask the right questions? In this episode, we explore how Toyota applies the…
- Problem Solving X: Toyota Doesn’t Expect Frontline Workers to Solve Every Problem · 31 min · Episode 92One of the most widely accepted beliefs about the Toyota Production System is that frontline employees should be empowered to solve their own problems. But have we taken that…
- Genba Ikigai – The 16 Habits of Lean Leadership with Mark Forkun · 1 h 31 min · Episode 91Why do Lean transformations fail—and what separates genuine transformation from “Lean theatre”? In this episode of Lean 911, Mark DeLuzio is joined by Mark Forkun, author of…
- Stop Copying Toyota’s Tools – Start Copying How Toyota Thinks · 57 min · Episode 90Why have so many organizations copied Toyota's tools, yet so few have replicated Toyota's success? In this episode of Lean911, we revisit Steven Spear and H. Kent Bowen's…
- Lean at 8 Seconds – What NASCAR Pit Crews Can Teach Us About Lean · 55 min · Episode 89What can Lean leaders learn from a NASCAR pit crew, where three-tenths of a second can mean five car lengths and elite performance depends on five people executing as one? In…
- From Toyota to Danaher to Your Enterprise: Introducing Lean Horizons Academy · 29 min · Episode 88What if the Lean lessons that helped shape one of the world’s most respected business systems could be made available to everyone in your organization—anytime, anywhere, and in…
- The Danaher Business System – 12 Things I’d Do Differently · 34 min · Episode 87When you build something that stands the test of time, it's tempting to believe you'd do it the same way all over again. But experience has a way of changing your perspective…
- Be The Magic: 4 Phases to Transform Your Life with Manish Chauhan · 1 h 22 min · Episode 86What if the biggest transformation in your life begins with a simple shift in perspective—not from believing life is happening to you, but realizing it is happening through you?…
- 25th Anniversary Episode: Lean Horizons’ Reflections – The Rise of Lean Theater · 45 min · Episode 85As Lean Horizons celebrates its 25th anniversary, founder Mark DeLuzio reflects on a quarter century of transformation work across six continents and dozens of industries. In…
- How Hansei Builds Better Leaders · 54 min · Episode 84A CNC machine crashed on the shop floor. Nathan Corliss walked out as a young supervisor, angry and ready to blame the operator. What happened next became one of the most…
- Replay: Standard Work · 27 min · Episode 83This is an unedited replay of a previous Lean 911 episode, originally published on January 13, 2023. We're bringing it back because the issue still causes Lean transformations to…
- The Six Sigma Hysteria · 48 min · Episode 82In this episode, we dive into the rise, dominance, and controversy surrounding Six Sigma — the corporate improvement system that promised near-perfect quality and became a…
- Your Machines Are Lying to You, and So Are Your Equipment Vendors – The Hidden Waste Most Manufacturing Engineers Ignore · 48 min · Episode 81Manufacturing Engineers pride themselves on precision, but what if the biggest waste is hiding in plain sight—inside the equipment itself? In this episode, we challenge the…
- What a Fighter Pilot Can Teach You About Selling Lean Value – with Randy Fitzhugh · 1 h 10 min · Episode 80In this powerful episode of Lean 911, Mark DeLuzio sits down with former Air Force fighter pilot and Danaher sales leader Randy Fitzhugh to unpack the real science behind value…
- Standards Written in Blood – There May Be No Second Chance · 34 min · Episode 79Lean management teaches that standards are the foundation of safety, quality, and improvement. In aviation, those standards take the form of checklists, redundancies, procedures…
- The CFO vs. Lean: The Fight That Gets Lean Leaders Fired · 38 min · Episode 78Mark DeLuzio, the Father of Lean Accounting, tells his experience and observations on how traditional cost accounting will derail a Lean Transformation. In many organizations…
- The Illusion of Business “Logic” – Brilliant at Home, Illogical at Work · 29 min · Episode 77In this episode, you'll be able to take away why many "logical" workplace measures and incentives can drive behavior that conflicts with Lean principles, and why comparing work…
- Book Review – Accidentally Aligned with Jason Neal · 45 min · Episode 76A shop floor comment stops everyone in their tracks: the work finally matches what the customer actually needs. That is the spark behind Accidentally Aligned, and it opens a…
- Are You Set Up to Win? – Find Out Here! · 46 min · Episode 75Most Lean efforts do not stall because people hate improvement. They stall because the system was never built to support it. This episode gives you a fast, practical lens for…
- Stop Misusing the 2-Bin Kanban System · 16 min · Episode 74Mark DeLuzio discusses how the 2-Bin Kanban is meant to ensure the operator does not run out of parts. Find out why it should not be used to structure your primary Kanban system.
