by Lean Enterprise Institute
The official podcast of the Lean Enterprise Institute.
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April 14, 2025
Josh Howell, LEI president, talks with Dr. Sarah Womack, an eight-year veteran of Toyota and author of Toyota’s Improvement Thinking from the Inside. Sarah discusses how her transformation and that of other individuals within Toyota collectively contributed to organizational improvements and high performance. Her Toyota experiences exponentially advanced her learning and today enable her to successfully impart lean values and mindsets to organizations that are very unlike Toyota. Learn more about lean thinking and practice at lean.org
April 9, 2025
In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we speak with Steve Spear, a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, senior fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, and associated faculty member at Adriane Labs of the Harvard School of Public Health. Spear is also author of The High-Velocity Edge and Wiring the Winning Organization and principal of SeeToSolve. The conversation explores: Stellar examples of product development innovation (and the learning cultures that made these achievements possible) What Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, DevOps, and more schools of systems thinking and management all have in common What business and product leaders across hardware and software can learn from each other Key ideas and core principles you should take away from his latest book What kind of leadership Steve believes is needed now and what good leadership looks like in practice, given all of the organizational challenges companies face today
March 19, 2025
In this episode of WLEI Podcast, we welcome Amy Smith, Founding Director of MIT’s D-Lab, an innovative university-based program in international development and a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Mark Graban
Harvard Business Review
Ryan Hawk
Shane Parrish
Simon Sinek
Harvard Business Review
Dave Stachowiak
Ron Pereira: Lean Thinker & Co-Founder of Gemba Academy
TED
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
Patrick Adams
NPR
Shingo Institute, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University
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