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2026

Fear-Based Leadership Worked at Volkswagen. Until It Didn’t.original (opens in a new tab)
6 Oct 2026
A Lean Management System That Doesn’t Depend on the Lean Team — Emily Swaney, OhioHealthoriginal (opens in a new tab)
30 Sept 2026
Assembly-Line Nursing Was Meant to Be Temporaryoriginal (opens in a new tab)
29 Sept 2026
The Toyota Andon System in South Africa: Two Buttons Instead of a Cordoriginal (opens in a new tab)
27 Sept 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 25, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
25 Sept 2026
A British Hospital Missed a Killer for Two Years. The Recommendations Are Mostly Hardware.original (opens in a new tab)
15 Sept 2026
What The Rehearsal Gets Wrong About Pilots–and Right About Leadership Trainingoriginal (opens in a new tab)
14 Sept 2026
Training as a Countermeasure? The “Fix” You Can Finish by Friday.original (opens in a new tab)
10 Sept 2026
What 21,050 Clinicians Told Us About Fear and Futilityoriginal (opens in a new tab)
9 Sept 2026
GM Adopted Forced Ranking in 2024. Ford Dropped It in 2001.original (opens in a new tab)
7 Sept 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 4, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
4 Sept 2026
Three Weeks to Act on a Nurse’s Patient Safety Concernsoriginal (opens in a new tab)
3 Sept 2026
What I Tell People Who Want to Write a Book About Leanoriginal (opens in a new tab)
1 Sept 2026
Larry Culp on Resistance to Lean: Compliance Isn’t Belieforiginal (opens in a new tab)
1 Sept 2026
You Came Back From the Training Ready. Nobody Around You Could Change a Thing.original (opens in a new tab)
31 Aug 2026
When “Human Error” Is the Root Cause, the Investigation Stopped Earlyoriginal (opens in a new tab)
29 Aug 2026
The Independent Double Check and the Risk of Human Errororiginal (opens in a new tab)
28 Aug 2026
Somebody Pulled the Cord and the Chairman of Radiology Showed Uporiginal (opens in a new tab)
27 Aug 2026
Making It Safe to Admit Mistakes at Work Might Start With Thank Youoriginal (opens in a new tab)
26 Aug 2026
29 Warning Signs and a Can Opener Bridgeoriginal (opens in a new tab)
25 Aug 2026
Why Speak-Up Programs Fail: Boeing, Wells Fargo, and Who Reads the Reportoriginal (opens in a new tab)
24 Aug 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 21, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
21 Aug 2026
Four Patients Got the Wrong Drug in Nashville. Ask a Better Question.original (opens in a new tab)
20 Aug 2026
Ten Psychological Safety Outcomes, and What They Do and Don’t Proveoriginal (opens in a new tab)
19 Aug 2026
Larry Culp on Success Theater, Embracing Red, and the GE Turnaroundoriginal (opens in a new tab)
18 Aug 2026
Toyota Doesn’t Call It Lean? Its Own Websites Say Otherwiseoriginal (opens in a new tab)
17 Aug 2026
What If Every Hospital Learned From Every Other Hospital’s Safety Incidents?original (opens in a new tab)
14 Aug 2026
An Insulin Error Killed a Hospital Patient. How Does Every Other Hospital Learn From It?original (opens in a new tab)
13 Aug 2026
Toyota Copied Ford’s Suggestion System–and Got Far Better Resultsoriginal (opens in a new tab)
12 Aug 2026
“Most People Wouldn’t”: Fear, Gratitude, and Reporting Medical Errorsoriginal (opens in a new tab)
11 Aug 2026
GE Aerospace’s Greenville Plant Proves Larry Culp’s “Safety First” Wasn’t Just Talkoriginal (opens in a new tab)
10 Aug 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape:  August 7, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
7 Aug 2026
Thirty Years Later, “Keep the Line Running” Is Still the Messageoriginal (opens in a new tab)
6 Aug 2026
Highlights From Five Conversations With Karen Martinoriginal (opens in a new tab)
5 Aug 2026
Outcome Bias, Near Misses, and Two Vials of Vecuroniumoriginal (opens in a new tab)
4 Aug 2026
Where Was Toyota’s First Andon Cord?original (opens in a new tab)
3 Aug 2026
Hyundai’s Humanoid Robots, GM Layoffs, Jim Farley’s Ford Quality Turnaround, and Toyota Kaizen for Coffee Farmersoriginal (opens in a new tab)
31 Jul 2026
Do 90% of Lean Transformations Really Fail? I Went Looking for the Numberoriginal (opens in a new tab)
30 Jul 2026
Workplace Deaths by Age: Why Counts and Rates Tell Different Storiesoriginal (opens in a new tab)
29 Jul 2026
A Locked Complaint Box in Greece: Learning From Customer Complaints, or Just Bureaucracy?original (opens in a new tab)
28 Jul 2026
If This Were Assembly Line Medicine, You Could Stop the Lineoriginal (opens in a new tab)
27 Jul 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: July 24, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
24 Jul 2026
Four Headers, Zero Metrics: An Empty Huddle Board in the ICU Hallwayoriginal (opens in a new tab)
23 Jul 2026
Toyota’s 1992 View: Standardized Work and Kaizen Are Two Sides of the Same Coinoriginal (opens in a new tab)
22 Jul 2026
A Kaizen Board in Japan, and a Manager Who Answered Every Sheetoriginal (opens in a new tab)
21 Jul 2026
Toyota’s $20-an-Idea Experiment–and the Risk of Fixing the Wrong Problemoriginal (opens in a new tab)
20 Jul 2026
What the First Twelve Years of Writing About Sports Taught Me About Leadershiporiginal (opens in a new tab)
17 Jul 2026
20 Years Of Lean Podcasting, Thanks to Norman Bodekoriginal (opens in a new tab)
16 Jul 2026
A Bending Column, a Bad Answer, and the Real Test of a Speak-Up Cultureoriginal (opens in a new tab)
15 Jul 2026
We Thought We Solved That: The Art and Judgment Calls in the PDSA Cycleoriginal (opens in a new tab)
14 Jul 2026
The First Three Seconds After Someone Admits a Mistakeoriginal (opens in a new tab)
13 Jul 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape:  Best of First Half of 2026original (opens in a new tab)
10 Jul 2026
Do Not Remove: What a Kaizen Binder Taught Me in Japanoriginal (opens in a new tab)
9 Jul 2026
What Toyota’s 1992 Booklet Leaves Out About Leadershiporiginal (opens in a new tab)
8 Jul 2026
The Taiichi Ohno 1981 Story Keeps Getting Reposted. It Can’t Be True.original (opens in a new tab)
7 Jul 2026
When Standard Work Isn’t Followed, Your Reaction Is the Real Standardoriginal (opens in a new tab)
6 Jul 2026
Eiji Toyoda on Mistakes: Give Your All, Then Write It Downoriginal (opens in a new tab)
1 Jul 2026
No, One Toyota Worker Can’t Stop the Whole Factoryoriginal (opens in a new tab)
29 Jun 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 26, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
26 Jun 2026
Why Lean Fails to Stick — with Thomas Cox and Andre DeMerchantoriginal (opens in a new tab)
24 Jun 2026
What Toyota’s 1992 Booklet Means by Kaizen and Job Ownershiporiginal (opens in a new tab)
22 Jun 2026
Even in Japan: A Target of Zero and a Process That Lives Near Seven Percentoriginal (opens in a new tab)
19 Jun 2026
‘No Debbie Downers’ and the Hidden Cost of a Positive Teamoriginal (opens in a new tab)
18 Jun 2026
ThedaCare’s Collaborative Care, Captured on a 2009 Videooriginal (opens in a new tab)
17 Jun 2026
102 Seconds vs. 300 Seconds: Toyota’s 1992 Case for One-Piece Floworiginal (opens in a new tab)
16 Jun 2026
Four Recent Episodes on Why People Stay Silent — and What It Costsoriginal (opens in a new tab)
15 Jun 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 12, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
12 Jun 2026
A Prize for Variation? What the NHS Backlog Leaderboard Actually Rewardsoriginal (opens in a new tab)
11 Jun 2026
When a Lean Leader Admits He Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing, with Gary Petersonoriginal (opens in a new tab)
10 Jun 2026
When Behavioral Nudges Help Patients, and When They Cover for a Broken Processoriginal (opens in a new tab)
9 Jun 2026
AI Didn’t Invent Lean Slop. It Learned It From Us.original (opens in a new tab)
7 Jun 2026
Admitting Mistakes Is Not Enough: The Leadership Lesson Behind the Burger King and Domino’s Adsoriginal (opens in a new tab)
4 Jun 2026
You’re Not Hiring Talent. You’re Renting It.original (opens in a new tab)
2 Jun 2026
What Toyota’s 1992 Booklet Says About Stopping the Line, and What It Leaves to Youoriginal (opens in a new tab)
2 Jun 2026
First, We Develop the Peopleoriginal (opens in a new tab)
1 Jun 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 29, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
29 May 2026
What Do You Know? And How Do You Know It?original (opens in a new tab)
28 May 2026
Jeff Liker, Twenty Years Later: The Ideas That Keep Showing Uporiginal (opens in a new tab)
27 May 2026
When Following “Best Practices” Is the Real Mistake: What Lean Practitioners Can Learn from Eric Riesoriginal (opens in a new tab)
26 May 2026
What Toyota Said About Their Own Production System in 1992original (opens in a new tab)
21 May 2026
Chad Diggs on Building Quality Systems, Not Heroesoriginal (opens in a new tab)
20 May 2026
Beyond Cheerleaders and Doomers: A Poll on AI in Lean Workoriginal (opens in a new tab)
19 May 2026
What Ingvar Kamprad’s Challengers Meant, and Why IKEA Displays Its Mistakesoriginal (opens in a new tab)
19 May 2026
Deming’s Long Shadow: Twenty Years of Conversationsoriginal (opens in a new tab)
18 May 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 15, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
15 May 2026
GM Wrote It Down in 1987. They Still Didn’t Get It. [Lean Coffee Talk]original (opens in a new tab)
15 May 2026
The Magic of Small, Odd Experiments: What Rory Sutherland Can Teach Lean Practitionersoriginal (opens in a new tab)
13 May 2026
MLB Walks Are Up With Robot Umpires. The Skill Is Knowing What to Ignore.original (opens in a new tab)
13 May 2026
What a “Perfect” Process Map Missed: A Lesson From Third Shiftoriginal (opens in a new tab)
12 May 2026
What Jim Womack Kept Telling Usoriginal (opens in a new tab)
11 May 2026
Mistakes and Leadership Lessons: Still Learning, Three Years Lateroriginal (opens in a new tab)
8 May 2026
A Bar Chart Said 24% Reduction — A Process Behavior Chart Said Something More Interestingoriginal (opens in a new tab)
7 May 2026
Belief vs. Compliance: Why Lean Still Struggles to Take Rootoriginal (opens in a new tab)
6 May 2026
The Most Expensive Person on Your Unit Is the One You Just Eliminatedoriginal (opens in a new tab)
5 May 2026
Remembering Norm Bodek, 20 Years After Episode #1original (opens in a new tab)
4 May 2026
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 1, 2026original (opens in a new tab)
1 May 2026
Why Most People Don’t Think — and What to Do About It, with Scott Burgmeyeroriginal (opens in a new tab)
29 Apr 2026
Calling a Supervisor a “Process Coach” Doesn’t Mean the Job Really Changesoriginal (opens in a new tab)
28 Apr 2026
A Free Red Bead Game Simulator: Try Dr. Deming’s Experiment Onlineoriginal (opens in a new tab)
26 Apr 2026
Did Ford’s Andon Cord Problem Ever Get Fixed? Help Me Find Out.original (opens in a new tab)
24 Apr 2026
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