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GA 074 | Creating a Culture of Kaizen with Ron Pereira

By Jessica Bush - September 3rd, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. In today’s episode, we’re sharing a special presentation Ron gave regarding

GA 072 | Practical Problem Solving: Part Four with Jon Miller

By Jessica Bush - August 20th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. In this episode we continue the Practical Problem Solving series with Gemba Academy Co

GA 071 | Practicing Lean with Mark Graban

By Jessica Bush - August 13th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s guest is lean expert Mark Graban, a longtime friend of Gemba Academy. Mar

Lean for Social Good

By Jessica Bush - July 31st, 2015

For most of us, the desire to improve and to be respectful of others is inherent. Many people practice some rudimentary form of lean without even realizing it. Those familiar with lean typically think first of manufacturing, and fo

GA 068 | The Model Line Approach with Lee Fried and Kris Box

By Jessica Bush - July 23rd, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s guests are Lean Consultants Lee Fried and Kris Box. Lee and Kris speciali

GA 067 | Lean Dentistry with Dr. Sami Bahri, DDS

By Jessica Bush - July 16th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s guest is Dr. Sami Bahri, aka the “The Lean Dentist.” Known fo

Lean Beginnings: My Journey So Far

By Jessica Bush - June 26th, 2015

By Jessica Bush I’ll admit, when I applied for the Marketing Specialist position at Gemba Academy, I didn’t know much about lean. I was less than a year out of college and all I had to go off of were snippets of information from on

How Do You Fight A Fire With A Garden Hose?

By Steve Kane - June 19th, 2015

By Steve Kane Many years ago, I was visiting a friend’s house in Southern California. It was a 1950’s ranch style house with a straight walkway from the street to the door. There was a tall palm tree where the walkway met the s

GA 062 | Lean for the Long Term with Ken Rolfes

By Ron Pereira - June 11th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s episode features Ken Rolfes, a longtime lean thinker, author, and AME aff

GA 061 | Adventurous Thinking with Sally Dominguez

By Ron Pereira - June 4th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s episode is a little different, in a fantastic way. As an architect, inven

GA 060 | Practical Problem Solving: Part One with John Miller

By Ron Pereira - May 28th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s episode is part one of a series featuring Jon Miller, one of Gemba Academ

GA 057 | The Lean Race with Dan Markovitz

By Ron Pereira - May 7th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s guest is Dan Markovitz, esteemed lean author and consultant. We discuss h

GA 056 | Intentional Leadership with Chris Burnham

By Ron Pereira - April 30th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s guest is Chris Burnham, lean thinker and host of the incredible Lean Lead

Learning by Writing… by Hand

By Kevin Meyer - March 17th, 2015

By Kevin Meyer I’m an early adopter tech geek at heart, and generally am among the first to embrace a new technology. I may not go to the extreme of standing in line for a new iPhone, but I will pay to upgrade to the latest model

GA 013 | Lean and Six Sigma in the Service Industry at West Texas A&M with Bryan Glenn

By Ron Pereira - July 3rd, 2014

I’m thrilled to welcome Bryan Glenn as today’s podcast guest. As the Director of Purchasing and Inventory Services at West Texas A&M University, Bryan is responsible for the implementation of the school’s lean ini

Introducing the Gemba Academy School of Six Sigma

By Ron Pereira - January 30th, 2013

For the past 6 months I, along with my Gemba Academy colleagues, have been extremely busy developing what we now call the Gemba Academy School of Six Sigma. I’m obviously extremely biased… but I have to confess… I’m quite happy

Webinar Replay: Using SPC to Make Better Management Decisions

By Ron Pereira - March 27th, 2012

Update: This webinar can now only be seen by subscribers to the Complete Lean Package. In this pre-recorded webinar, Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals and the upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen, showed how simple statistical process c

The Soccer Coach

By Ron Pereira - November 23rd, 2010

I recently completed one of the most humbling experiences of my life… I coached my daughter’s U7 soccer team. The main challenge for me was that I never played soccer growing up. As such, I had a lot of learning to do before I coul

A Different Way to Learn

By Ron Pereira - September 17th, 2010

A big hat tip over to Kevin Meyer or Evolving Excellence for sharing this video with me. It’s a fascinating story of how some children are learning more than anyone could ever imagine possible. I’m definitely interested

Gettin’ Jiggy With It

By Ron Pereira - August 2nd, 2010

I’ve been doing a tremendous amount of classroom training the last few weeks. To be more precise, over the last 14 days I’ve taught more than 40 people everything from hypothesis testing to the different types of pull systems used

The Art of Instruction

By Ron Pereira - July 7th, 2008

“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” ~Albert Einstein Last night we discussed two different learning theories – entity and incremental. I read about these theories i

Two Approaches to Learning

By Ron Pereira - July 6th, 2008

Have you ever watched the movie Searching for Bobby Fisher? It’s the one about the child prodigy chess player. Well the child, Josh Waitzkin, is all grown up now and has written a book called The Art of Learning. I am not done with t

Rope Suppliers

By Ron Pereira - January 28th, 2008

J Thatcher recently asked: Here’s a question: If the student becomes the initiation point for “pull” learning, how does the instructor continue to “push” students beyond what they believed themselves capable? (And yes, I’m

Should we Push or Pull in Schools?

By Ron Pereira - January 24th, 2008

My good friend, and excellent blogger, Mark Graban posted an interesting article related to how a school is using continuous improvement methods to, well, improve things. For those who don’t know, Mark and I live in the same town an

Top 10 Lean Education Mistakes (and a Few Recommendations)

By Jon Miller - October 21st, 2007

Here is a mixed bag of thoughts on common Lean education mistakes and a few recommendations on how to avoid them: #1: Teaching things rather than teaching thinking If one thing can be said about the Lean tools, it is that they work. Ye

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