All Episodes
Lean 911 — 92 episodes
Genba Ikigai – The 16 Habits of Lean Leadership with Mark Forkun
Stop Copying Toyota’s Tools – Start Copying How Toyota Thinks
Lean at 8 Seconds – What NASCAR Pit Crews Can Teach Us About Lean
From Toyota to Danaher to Your Enterprise: Introducing Lean Horizons Academy
The Danaher Business System – 12 Things I’d Do Differently
Be The Magic: 4 Phases to Transform Your Life with Manish Chauhan
25th Anniversary Episode: Lean Horizons’ Reflections – The Rise of Lean Theater
How Hansei Builds Better Leaders
Replay: Standard Work
The Six Sigma Hysteria
Your Machines Are Lying to You, and So Are Your Equipment Vendors – The Hidden Waste Most Manufacturing Engineers Ignore
What a Fighter Pilot Can Teach You About Selling Lean Value – with Randy Fitzhugh
Standards Written in Blood – There May Be No Second Chance
The CFO vs. Lean: The Fight That Gets Lean Leaders Fired
The Illusion of Business “Logic” – Brilliant at Home, Illogical at Work
Book Review – Accidentally Aligned with Jason Neal
Are You Set Up to Win? – Find Out Here!
Stop Misusing the 2-Bin Kanban System
Let’s Make 2026 a Year of “Return to the Basics”
Where Are The Engineers?
Do You Really Understand the Toyota Production System House?
How Do You Price Your Product?
Stop Measuring Productivity
Institutionalized Waste from Mura and Muri
Lessons from the Danaher Business System Office III – Humble Errors: Mistakes We Made when Creating the Danaher Business System
Lessons from the Danaher Business System Office II – The Role and Structure of a Lean Office
Lessons from the Danaher Business System Office I – Do You Have a Purpose?
Problem Solving IX – Are you a Critical Thinker? The Mindset of a Problem Solver
How Compensation Systems Can Kill a Lean Transformation
Why the Danaher Business System Was Successful – The Answer May Surprise You!
The Problem with OEE and Absorption Accounting
Lean Leadership Mistakes That Stall Change (Webinar Replay Ask Two Marks Anything)
Problem Solving VIII – Defining the Span of Control to Enable Problem Solving
Why Don’t Your Leaders Listen to You?
Mark’s Favorite Lean Financial Metric – Free Cash Flow as % of Net Income
Death by Point Kaizen – Why You Need Kaikaku
The Games We Play With On-Time Delivery Metrics
Target Costing – Make Money on Job #1
Why Aren’t There More Value Stream Organizations?
Jerry Wright – Book Review: “The Insanity Trap – What Your MRP Consultant Won’t Tell You”
Griselda Abousleman – The Power of Optimism
How Do You Define a Defect?
The Productivity Hysteria
Death by Lean Audits
Generational Yokoten
Respect for People with Nathan Corliss
The Way of Lean Investing with Cliff Ransom
The Poison of Metrics – With Jon Boucher
The 7 Flows – With Jon Boucher
Why The Theory of Constraints (TOC) Was Not Included in the Creation of DBS
The Early Days at Danaher with Art Byrne
How to Create a Lean Culture – With Art Byrne
Why You Need a Lean Sensei
Art Byrne – The Lean Answer Book
Mixed Model Production II – Implementation
Mixed Model Production I – Introduction
Destructive Lean “Leadership”
On-Time Delivery Metrics – Measure to Promise or to Request Date?
Chairs – To Sit or Not to Sit
Problem Solving VII – The Problem with Problem Escalation
Hide Oba – Lean TPS Basics and lessons from his Father, Hajime Oba
Hajime Oba – His life and His Journey – Radiating The Toyota Production System Throughout the Globe
Whatever Happened to Kaizen?
3P and Moonshine with Jon Boucher
Basic Lean Humor – GAN AWAY
Lean Administrative Processes with Joe Rutz
My 10 Rules of a Process
My View on 3rd Party Awards and Certifications
Problem Solving VI: Trust But Verify – Challenge the Status Quo
Problem Solving V: Types of Problems
Problem Solving IV: Leading and Lagging Indicators
Problem Solving III: How to Define a Problem
Problem Solving II: Solving Problems at the Lowest Level
Problem Solving I: Problem Fixing vs. Problem Solving
Daily Management
Kaizen III – Anatomy of a Kaizen via The Report Out
Kaizen II – Pitfalls
Kaizen I – Rules
Perspectives – VA vs NVA
Accounting For Lean
Lean Accounting
My Brief Encounter With Greatness
What Happened to the “Fast” in Fast Food?
Analyzing Capital Expenditures from a Lean Perspective
Benchmarking and The Rubik’s Cube Through a Lean Lens
TAKT Time
Lean and Trust
DBS vs. TPS
Kanban
Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
Standard Work
Lean Mindset