Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
Business:Management
MIT professor, author, and consultant
http://www.leanblog.org/386
Joining me again for Episode #386 is Steve Spear, who reached out to share recollections of one of his most influential teachers and mentors, Hajime Oba, who passed away earlier this month at 75.
I never had the chance to learn directly from Mr. Oba, but he is legendary in Lean circles and I know many people who were deeply influenced by Mr. Oba. I hope to interview more of them in the near future. My deepest condolences go out to Mr. Oba's family, friends, and colleagues.
Here is a classic 2001 WSJ article that features him:
"How Does Toyota Maintain Quality? Mr. Oba's Hair Dryer Offers a Clue"
In today's episode, Steve talks about meeting Mr. Oba and how he learned from him as a PhD student. One story that Steve shares was about sitting at his desk, thinking about a problem, and Mr. Oba told him:
"Don't think -- do!"
Hajime Oba
You'll hear more from Steve talking about the need to learn by doing and to test changes in an experimental fashion. It's not just "do" --- it's Plan Do Check Act (or Plan Do Study Adjust or even Plan Test Study Adjust).
Brad White, on Lean Daily Management for Healthcare
Steve Bera, Reflections on NUMMI and #Lean, Part 2
Jim Huntzinger on Deflation, Lean Management & Lean Accounting
Tania Lyon, #Lean at St. Clair Hospital & KaiNexus
Steve Bera, Reflections on NUMMI and #Lean, Part 1
Mark DeLuzio, "Turn Waste Into Wealth" With Lean
Lean in Veterinary Medicine
Ash Maurya, "Scaling #Lean" and Lean Startup
Jordan Peck, from MIT to the VA to Maine Health
Jim Huntzinger & Russ Scaffede on Lean Leadership
Dr. Jack Billi & Mark Graban on Lean in Healthcare
Steve Leuschel on "Lean Culture Change"
Drew Locher, Lean Office to Lean Enterprise
James Chisholm, ExperiencePoint and Leading Change
Steve Montague, Lean, Checklists & Patient Safety
Dr. Tom Evans, Improving Healthcare Quality in Iowa
Dan Markovitz, "Building the Fit Organization," Part 2
Michael Bungay Stanier, ”The Coaching Habit” *
Hospital Staff & Leaders Talk About the Culture of Kaizen
Dan Markovitz, "Building the Fit Organization," Part 1