Subtract the Waste, Subtract the Worker

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

Years ago I ran improvement work for a large automaker. I taught lean — the Toyota tools, waste and flow, the whole grammar of doing more with less. I believed in it. I still do. One afternoon I got pulled into a room. The company was looking hard at productivity — hours per vehicle, the number every plant lives and dies by. Someone asked me a plain question. These lean methods you’re teaching — can we use them to get the reductions we need? I felt the color go out of my face. I stuttered. And then...