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The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know
by Venki Padmanabhan
Every week a working person does something a machine cannot, and no ledger anywhere records it. This show is about what that costs — and about why the people closest to the work have the best solutions.Venki Padmanabhan spent thirty-six years on manufacturing floors. General Motors at Buick City, Lansing Grand River and Lansing Delta Township. Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart. Royal Enfield in Chennai. Ather Energy in Bengaluru. He now writes about the thing he watched on every one of those floors: the capability of the people doing the work is among the largest assets a company owns, and the only one that appears nowhere on its balance sheet.Each episode is a single essay, read aloud. Many are about manufacturing — plant floors, supervisors, line operators, maintenance, automation, lean, the arithmetic of a launch. Others follow the same argument into healthcare, logistics, construction and hospitality, because the accounting problem is identical wherever people know more tha
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every week a working person does something a machine cannot, and no ledger anywhere records it. This show is about what that costs — and about why the people closest to the work have the best solutions.Venki Padmanabhan spent thirty-six years on manufacturing floors. General Motors at Buick City, Lansing Grand River and Lansing Delta Township. Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart. Royal Enfield in Chennai. Ather Energy in Bengaluru. He now writes about the thing he watched on every one of those floors: the capability of the people doing the work is among the largest assets a company owns, and the only one that appears nowhere on its balance sheet.Each episode is a single essay, read aloud. Many are about manufacturing — plant floors, supervisors, line operators, maintenance, automation, lean, the arithmetic of a launch. Others follow the same argument into healthcare, logistics, construction and hospitality, because the accounting problem is identical wherever people know more tha
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