Longtime manufacturing process engineer and trainer John Dyer discusses operational excellence and continuous improvement with Professor Mohamed Saleh, a Lean, Six Sigma and continuous improvement expert. Between them, the two share nearly 60 years of continuous improvement expertise. IndustryWeek has partnered with Dyer and Saleh to present their insights to a wide audience of manufacturing professionals.
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CI4Life shares insights and success stories of entrepreneurs that have Scaled their Business. Learn valuable strategies and tips/hacks to Scale (grow) your Business faster than you thought possible.
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The KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast features content from our webinars. We also share conversations with KaiNexus team members and customers from time to time. This podcast brings you information about continuous improvement best practices, employee engagement, lean, six sigma (and related improvement disciplines) and more. Join us as we explore the nuances of creating a culture of continuous improvement, no matter your level of expertise or your industry.
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You’re a leader who knows that people are at the center of an exceptional organizational culture. You're excited to activate a culture of continuous learning – where everyone is capable, confident, and empowered to solve problems and innovate at all levels. This podcast is all about inspiring and equipping you to do that – through the power of learning and leading. Chain of Learning® is where the links of leadership and learning unite. Join your host, Katie Anderson, internationally recogniz ...
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Helping you take continuous improvement to the next level so you can destroy your organization’s status quo, devastate your competitors, and fuel revolutionary innovation.
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What Makes Employees Actually Participate in Continuous Improvement Programs?
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7:40In this episode, Mark Graban reads a recent KaiNexus blog post by Danielle Yoon: “What Makes Employees Actually Participate in Continuous Improvement Programs?” Here is the blog post Employee participation is the heartbeat of any Lean or continuous improvement effort. Without it, even the best strategies stall. Drawing on research by Dr. Shweta Cho…
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Breaking Down Silos: Uniting Teams for Unstoppable Success
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22:12Dive deep into the destructive impact of organizational silos. Explore how these invisible walls form and learn strategies to break them down, paving the way for seamless teamwork and continuous improvement.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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51| Elevate Your Impact Beyond Tools: The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit [with Elisabeth Swan and Tracy O'Rouke]
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46:08Enter to win a copy of "The Problem Solver's Toolkit" by Tracy O'Rourke and Elisabeth Swan by September 12. Organizations invest thousands of dollars and countless hours into lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement training programs. Certifications get awarded. Belts get earned. But nothing actually changes. Technical problem-solving trai…
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How to reduce bottlenecks in your manufacturing process by reducing the 8 areas of waste
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13:43저자 Rick Heyland
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Trust on Display: How OPEN Communication shapes Organizational Culture
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23:47Discover how open communication is not just a tool but a mirror reflecting the ongoing culture within your organization. We’ll discuss real-world examples, like hour-by-hour metric boards. Are they tools for improvement or instruments of blame?저자 Endeavor Business Media
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The Power of Two-Way Communication in Organizational Design
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22:28Uncover the blueprint for fostering two-way communication that ignites collaboration and innovation. From tiered huddles to activating listening structures and rituals that prioritize dialogue over directives, explore how flattening organizational structures can break down barriers and foster a culture of openness and trust.…
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Unlocking Workforce Potential: The Key to Genuine Employee Engagement
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22:43Explore the true power of employee engagement. Discover how sincere, empathetic, and respectful engagement can transform the narrative from “I” to “We,” fostering ownership, buy-in, and enthusiastic productivity.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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Decoding Tribal Language: Leadership Strategies for a Collaborative Culture
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21:55Discover the skill of active listening and how to identify and engage with the tribes within your organization. Learn how to create triads to break down competitive silos, establish shared values, and unite everyone in pursuit of a noble cause.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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50| Change the Culture: NUMMI and the Power of Leading Through Influence, Not Authority [with Isao Yoshino]
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27:01“Change the culture!” That’s exactly what longtime Toyota leader Isao Yoshino was tasked with during one of the most famous business transformations in history—NUMMI—Toyota’s joint venture with General Motors in the 1980s. The challenge? Take GM’s worst-performing plant—plagued by absenteeism, low morale, and poor quality—and turn it around. Within…
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The Facade of Excellence: Unveiling Leadership’s Emotional Journey
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23:17Dive into three pivotal moments from "The Facade of Excellence: Defining a New Normal of Leadership," written by podcast co-host John Dyer. The book isn’t just a narrative; it reflects real-life struggles and triumphs. Told through the eyes of fictional executives Jim Brown and Frank Smith, you’ll explore the clash of new and old management styles.…
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Leading with Integrity: Addressing Workplace Toxicity and Safeguarding Core Values
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24:17Delve into the challenge of maintaining core values in the workplace while addressing toxicity head-on. Identifying values and behaviors that promote collaboration, teamwork, and improvement is essential, but living by these values daily is the real test. This episode explores these complex dynamics, including how to handle the “firefighter” employ…
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Leadership Building Trust: Insights to Driving Out Fear
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22:32Explore actionable strategies for leaders to build trust, foster psychological safety, and create a culture where employees feel secure to share ideas, take risks, and contribute to continuous improvement. Additionally, uncover the damaging actions that can quickly destroy an environment of trust and collaboration.…
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Leadership Participation: Unmasking the Rituals of Hands-On Leadership
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23:26Dive deep into the rituals that redefine leadership: appreciation walks, waste walks, standard work observations, kaizen participation, delivering impactful training, and conducting 5S audits. Discover why lean is not a spectator sport and how true leaders lead by example.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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49| Shift Your Mindset, Shift Your Impact: 3 Reframes for Positive Leadership
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28:09When you encounter challenges or setbacks, and it feels like things just aren’t going your way, it’s easy to get caught into a downward negative spiral. But could simple mindset shifts change not just how you feel, but how you move forward and influence those around you with positive momentum? In this episode, I’m sharing three powerful reframes th…
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Leadership Style: Recognizing and Adapting Styles to Need
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21:04Dive deep into the four distinct leadership styles, ranging from dictator to collaboration, and explore how recognizing and adapting these styles can drive organizations toward genuine empowerment and teamwork.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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A real life example of Senior Team decision making and effectiveness
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Leadership Commitment: The Crucial Role it Plays in Organizational Change
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21:19Explore the behaviors of leaders at varying levels of commitment and discover the stark differences between involvement and true dedication. Learn why leaders who merely participate, rather than fully commit, can inadvertently sabotage their teams’ efforts.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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Be Proactive: How to increase your influence for positive change
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Delve into the importance of finding purpose within teams and how investing in personal development is the cornerstone of sustainable motivation. Additionally, explore the power of daily management visual boards as tools for empowerment rather than simple reporting mechanisms.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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What Is the Continuous Improvement Model and How Does It Drive Business Success?
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16:46Read the blog post Summary The continuous improvement model is a systematic approach where organizations constantly implement small, incremental improvements to services, products, and processes. Built on seven core principles, this model enables businesses of any size to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and engage employees in meaningful change …
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Essentialism- Get Focused on your "Yes's" and your "No's" for a more fulfilling career and life
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Goals don't always drive progress and can actually hinder team success. From the toxic effects of short-term goal fixation to the crucial role of psychological safety, learn how goals impact employee morale and wellbeing.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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48| Make Leadership Meaningful: From Tools to Purposeful Impact [with Josef Procházka]
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49:59Apply for the Nov 2025 or May 2026 Japan Leadership Experience https://kbjanderson.com/japantrip/ You’re implementing the tools. Making the improvements. Delivering the project results. But the same problems keep resurfacing and you’re left wondering: What’s missing? In this episode, Josef Procházka, a lean consultant from the Czech Republic, share…
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Unlocking Team Success: Effective Team Decision Making
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21:23Delve into the crucial topic of effective team decision-making techniques, warning against one particular method that can irreparably harm team dynamics and spill over into the daily work environment.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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How Do I Get Executive Buy-In for Improvement Initiatives?
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8:12Read the blog post You’ve identified inefficiencies. You have a clear roadmap. You know your improvement initiative can move the needle. What's next? You need executive buy-in. One of the most common challenges for CI and OpEx leaders is getting senior leadership to engage, support, and actively champion improvement work. It's not that leaders don'…
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Explore how diversity in thought enhances problem-solving and innovation within teams, while also examining why the fundamental question of "Why am I here?" often lies at the root of disruptions in team dynamics.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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Delve into the four phases every team experiences, including the "storm" phase, and learn how they influence team dynamics.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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6 Steps to Continuous Improvement in Automotive Manufacturing
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9:14The blog post Manufacturers in the automotive sector face significant pressures today, from rising material costs and supply chain disruptions to the demand for faster production times and stricter regulatory requirements. Achieving continuous quality improvement (CQI) remains critical, as it not only enhances product consistency and drives complia…
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Unlocking Team Success: The Blueprint of Effective Teamwork Design
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19:50Understand the anatomy of successful teams, from technical and functional teams to leadership and project-driven teams. Learn the importance of team design, including team tasks, team size and the skills required of team members.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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47| Develop Leaders the Toyota Way: Lessons from Kan-Pro [with Isao Yoshino]
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51:08A global economic crisis is dragging down sales. Departments are working in silos and leaders at all levels are arguing about priorities. Managers are too busy to coach their teams. You might think this describes your organization today—and it was the exact situation Toyota faced nearly 50 years ago. This challenge sparked one of the most ambitious…
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Have you and your team ever faced the dread and horror of halting a process following a change you advocated for? Change inherently carries risks, but the aim is to minimize these risks by strategically narrowing down the most effective countermeasures. This episode unveils the intricacies of selecting the optimal solution and charting the right pa…
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Peeling Back the Layers into Diagnosing the Root Cause: Navigating the Maze of Symptoms
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21:59If solving problems were easy, the mystery would have been unraveled by now. Explore essential techniques and tools for preventing recurrent issues from casting a shadow over the organization or jumping to premature conclusions.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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Two Key Leadership Lessons: Effectiveness over Efficiency and Top Senior team alignment
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The Criticality of Visualizing Workflows: Navigating Value Stream Mapping vs Process Mapping
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21:10Whether you refer to it as value stream mapping or various levels of process mapping, the episode unravels the complexities of this valuable tool. The discussion exposes hidden steps, underscoring the significance of mapping the actual process over relying on assumptions.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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What Your C-Suite Wants From Your Improvement Program (But Hasn’t Said)
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6:47Link to the blog post If you’re a CI leader, you’ve likely experienced the paradox: you’re driving improvements across the organization, but your executive team still sees your program as “supporting work” and not strategic work. You may hear positive feedback, even encouragement. But behind closed doors, your program is being measured against a di…
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Does the Scientific Template of Problem Solving Even Matter?
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20:13Unravel the distinctions between PDCA and PDSA, and explore the necessity of an A3 for each problem, large or small.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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46| Lead Change at Scale: Inside GE Aerospace’s Lean Cultural Transformation [with Phil Wickler]
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44:55Is it possible to lead a real, long-term cultural transformation in a publicly traded company—where shareholders often demand short-term financial results? It’s challenging, yet possible. And GE Aerospace, with CEO Larry Culp at the helm, is leading the way. I invited Phil Wickler, Chief Transformation Officer, back to discuss the enterprise-wide s…
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Navigating the Key Elements of Organizational Progress: Triumphs and Setbacks
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25:43Delve into the "essential ingredients" for a successful and sustainable organizational transformation, as well as explore the two "root causes" behind the potential fizzling out of such efforts.저자 Endeavor Business Media
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45| Manage on Purpose: Align Teams, Develop Strategy, Grow People [with Mark Reich]
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49:26How effective is your organization's strategy in achieving results? If your team doesn't understand how their daily work connects to bigger organizational goals, you don't have a strategy—you have a gap. A gap in engagement. A gap in alignment. This gap leads to confusion, misaligned priorities, and wasted effort. I’m joined by Mark Reich, author o…
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Breaking Through Cultural Friction: The Role of Respect for People (Strengthening Culture for Sustainable Performance)
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59:57A webinar presented by Scott Gauvin, CEO of Macresco Consulting and the Co-founder of the Respect for People Roadmap Video, slides, and more Learning objectives: Identify the hidden barriers that prevent Lean from gaining traction—and discover practical strategies to overcome them Learn the nine behaviors leaders and employees can adopt to build a …
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Peak Performance through high accountability and high psychological safety
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44| Master the Coaching Continuum and Become a Transformational Improvement Coach
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19:10How many questions is too many? You know that asking effective questions is key to helping others solve problems and unlocking improvement, but can you ask too many questions? Yes! And when you do so, you actually hinder progress, not enable it. In this episode, I share one of the most common mistakes leaders and coaches alike make when learning to…
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Achieve more strategic goals through improved weekly and daily planning
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43| Human-Centered Leadership Using Kata, Obeya, and Omotenashi: Japanese Management Masterclass Part 2 [with Tim Wolput]
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32:45What’s the real purpose behind the Japanese practices integral to lean management —like kata, obeya, and A3 reports? These methods are often misunderstood as mere templates or formats, without recognizing the deeper meaning and intention that drive their impact. In this episode, we’re picking up on my conversation with Tim Wolput, Japanologist, Toy…
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42| Do the Right Thing: Japanese Management Masterclass Part 1 [with Tim Wolput]
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44:02How much of the Toyota Way is dependent on Japanese culture? And how much of it all comes down to… being human? There are questions I’ve explored with 130+ global leaders who’ve joined my Japan Leadership Experience programs. To help you answer this question, I’ve invited Tim Wolput – Japanologist and Toyota Way Management expert, to Chain of Learn…
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Ask the CEO: Bill Canady on Profitable Growth, 80/20 Leadership & Lean Culture
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58:46In this special episode, I'm joined by Bill Canady, CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies. Bill has spent over 30 years leading companies to profitable growth, building what he calls the “Profitable Growth Operating System.” He’s also the author of The 80/20 CEO, with a second book, From Panic to Profit, o…
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41| Transactions to Transformations: Positioning for Greater Influence [with Betsy Jordyn]
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1:00:53You’re doing great work….yet you know you and the change you envision could have greater influence. You have a vision for more. More strategic work. More influence. More change that really makes an impact and actually sticks -- for your clients or organization. Only question—how do you get there? The issue isn’t your talent or skills. It’s how you …
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[Webinar] Driving a Culture of Accountability: Transforming Patient Safety with KaiNexus
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39:25Watch the recording Presented by Lindsey Booty, RN, BS, CNOR, is the Supervisor of Performance Improvement Christopher Thomas, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSUHSC and Chief Quality Officer LeaAnn Teague, MBA, MT(ASCP), SBB, PMP, is Sr. Director of Performance Improvement from Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center In …
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Preview: Driving a Culture of Accountability: Transforming Patient Safety with KaiNexus and Our Lady of the Lake
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7:39In this special preview episode, Mark Graban is joined by Lindsey Booty, Supervisor of Performance Improvement at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Register for the webinar Lindsey shares how their team has built a culture of high reliability and accountability by combining weekly patient safety rounding with t…
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