GA 152 | TWI, Kata, and Respect for People with Skip Steward and Brandon Brown

This week’s guests are Skip Steward and Brandon Brown. We had the pleasure of interviewing them while attending the KataCon/TWI Summits in San Diego. They both shared a lot of valuable insight with us regarding TWI, Kata, Respect for People, and more. An MP3 version of this episode is available for download here.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Skip and Brandon’s backgrounds (4:00)
• Quotes that inspire them (5:01)
• About Baptist Memorial Health Care’s journey (6:47)
• What Toyota Kata is all about (9:46)
• About fall precautions in a hospital setting (14:40)
• Successes and challenges (17:05)
• A powerful personal anecdote (19:08)
• Advice to those at the beginning of their lean journeys (23:53)
• What “Respect for People” means to them (28:45)
• The best advice they’ve ever received (31:22)
• What they are most proud of as it relates to lean (33:52)
• Book recommendations (36:28)
• Final words of wisdom (38:12)

Podcast Resources

• Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3
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• GA 109 | How to Leverage Toyota Kata with Brandon Brown
• Brandon’s Website
• Brandon on LinkedIn
• Brandon on Twitter
• Skip on LinkedIn
• Skip on Twitter 

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What Do You Think?

How do you leverage TWI and/or Toyota Kata? How do they intersect with Respect for People?

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