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The Rest is Lean — 40 episodes

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Ian Mountain

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Does removing variation inhibit innovation? aka The Normalisation of Deviation.

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Thank you for Stopping the Line aka John's 'Cuddly' Trip to Toyota Deeside

4

Lean Browsers & Ugly Babies aka David's Sandwich

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Astrid Mozes

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How Lean Helps in Real Life aka The Puppet Show Looks Different but the Strings are the Same!

7

Who's your Phone-A-Friend Al? aka The Problem, The Difficulty!

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Rob Marchant

9

I'll Stop When You Squeak! aka What Happens if We Don't Improve?

10

Leadership, Listening and Gemba aka Looking Through a Different Lens

11

The Tact of Takt II aka You Can't Be a Little Bit Pregnant!

12

The Tact of Takt aka A Trip to Japan

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Glyn Holman

14

PDCA or CAPDo aka In-SPIRE-ing Lean

15

Lean You Wouldn't Do? aka Red Flags & Frogs in Wells

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Voice of the Customer aka The 'Pull' of Learning

17

Season 2 Finale aka Tool or not to Tool, That is the Question

18

Too Much Lean, Is it possible? aka Tesla and Toyota Insights

19

World Class Team Leader Training Ideas aka Is This Legal???

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World Class Team Leader Competencies aka Going Global

21

Visual Management, Gemba and Escalation aka 'The Autonomic System'

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Measuring SQCDP and ensuring value over cost aka 'The measures of unintended consequence'

23

Keeping it simple is the key to sustainable lean transformation aka 'Goat or Car'

24

#subcon2025 Special Edition. Podcast live at the NEC 'Why lean sustainability can fail'

25

Barriers to sustainable Lean. Visible support & need 4 lean aka 'When no problem is a problem'

26

Useful Gadgets & Team Dynamics for #lean professionals #nlp aka 'Man Down Man Down!'

27

Quality, Cost & Delivery #qcd The essential KPI's for every lean team brief? aka Q&A Session

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The 4 types of problem solving skill. Is return to standard Kaizen? aka New season Rambling

29

Rachel Reeves faces UK manufacturing questions aka 'Look after our SMEs & Apprentices!'

30

Jugaad to TPM. The merits of using foreign words in your business aka "Talking Japanese'

31

Start your lean journey. Is Honda, Toyota, Nissan's approach different? aka 'A Borg Mentality'

32

Who is the best Operator? & how does a group share lean practice aka Buddy plants & pull

33

Avoid the most common red tagging mistakes in 5S activities aka 'A Dose of 5S Part 2'

34

Deploying 5S, 5C, Workplace Organisation. It's a Lean model, not a script aka 'A Dose of 5S'

35

We name the toughest job in manufacturing & how to support them in lean aka "well meant intent"

36

Live Pareto charts and alternate data for effective CI Op-ex and Lean, aka 'Skip Diving'

37

Effective Start of Shift Briefs and the negative impact of bad ones aka 'Check-in Fury'

38

The nature of night shifts, and avoiding the lean blocker 'Silo Mentality' aka 'Night Silos'

39

How to assess a company QUICKLY, for Lean traits aka First Visit tips

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What makes a good lean change agent aka Avengers Assemble, and how we got started in Lean