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The Rest is Lean — 52 episodes

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Freedom within a Framework - A Safe Place to Develop Leadership Capability & Empowerment

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Recruiting Lean Queens - LinkedIn Lunacy, Zoom Chaos & Gemba Games

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Lean v Elon Musk, Smugglers and "The Idiot Index"

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5S, 6S or 7S? 7 or 8 Wastes? Find out what boils our p!$$

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Which Gemba would you like to go to? Lean Leadership & Analogies in Premier League Football

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The Rest is Lean Podcast LIVE Edition at Subcon 2026 aka Why does lean fail & how to avoid it

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series Part 2 - Mark Hemming

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series Part 1 - Mark Hemming

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Our Visit to SubCon 2026 aka The Take That Man

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Questions to ask to get a feel for a business aka What problem are you trying to solve?

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Delphine Fillot

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Sustaining Lean Transformation aka How Long Do You Persevere?

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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

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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!

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

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Rob Marchant

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

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Leadership, Listening and Gemba aka Looking Through a Different Lens

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

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The Tact of Takt aka A Trip to Japan

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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Glyn Holman

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PDCA or CAPDo aka In-SPIRE-ing Lean

27

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

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Voice of the Customer aka The 'Pull' of Learning

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

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

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

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World Class Team Leader Competencies aka Going Global

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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'

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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