GA 221 | How to Think Scientifically with Stephen Derksen

This week’s guest is Stephen Derksen. Ron and Stephen discussed Toyota Kata and learning how to think in a scientific manner. An MP3 version of this episode is available for download here.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Stephen’s background (2:44)
• About Barkman Concrete (5:03)
• Lean in Canada (5:39)
• Barkman’s CI journey (7:41)
• What CME is and how they’ve helped (11:16)
• How they discovered Toyota Kata (12:35)
• Their first experiment (16:49)
• The progress they made (19:34)
• The Dreyfus model (21:13)
• Where they are today (23:18)
• How their leadership style has changed (25:40)
• The connection to the backwards bicycle (31:56)
• Some of the lessons he’s learned (34:48)
• Advice he would give his younger self (36:44)
• Who Stephen would shadow (37:58)
• What Stephen is most proud of (39:09)
• Stephen’s final words of wisdom (40:07)

Podcast Resources

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• Stephen on LinkedIn 
• The Backwards Bicycle
• Barkman Concrete

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