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Author: Alan Lothian, John Dee, Russell Watkins

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The Rest is Lean Channel is a light-hearted and educational look at how to make businesses better through Lean Manufacturing and Operational Excellence. 

Suited for all levels of understanding and from any industry or geographical region.

John, Alan & Russell are time-served lean professionals with over 30 years each in this field. Leading and coaching some of the best businesses from SMEs to multi-nationals.

Trained by some of the highest calibre Japanese masters from Toyota(one step from Ohno himself), Honda and Nissan , we want to share our experiences with you, allowing some of these 'pearls of wisdom' to help make your business processes, people, and profitability that little bit better each day.

We welcome your comments, questions, and guidance on future discussion topics so feel free to drop us a line via the comments section or via email. 

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Send us Fan Mail Toyota leadership thank the operator when the Andon is activated and the line stops. If an operator stopped a machine in your organisation, would you say the same? In this episode we discuss Freedom within a Framework. An opportunity to safely develop leadership capability, problem solving, empowerment and engagement. How do your escalation processes work? Is your well meant intent actually stifling development of your future leaders? Does a leader always have t...
Send us Fan Mail Problem solving the challenge of finding Lean strength and depth in your organisation. What traits should we be looking for and what should set the alarm bells? Does LinkedIn and Zoom help or hinder in making the right decision? These are some of the questions we take from our subscribers and followers. In this episode we try to tackle these and ask a few more: Develop from within or recruit? What balance is to be made of theory v application? People centric or shiny new ma...
Send us Fan Mail Elon Musk and Drug Smugglers. Can we learn from those we may not like? Are our biases meaning that we are missing a good opportunity to learn? The new series of The Rest is Lean Podcast gets underway, full of interesting discussion and plenty of laughs Following on from Alan's venting, the Team discuss how lean learning can come from those who are not necessarily the most well-liked of people Does Elon Musk have a 'Lean' mindset?How do drug smugglers use lean concepts for t...
Send us Fan Mail Do you really know the real well-meant intent of the Lean Tools / Techniques of 5S and 7 Wastes? Maybe you've heard 6S (or even 7S) and 8 Wastes for example and then wondered why? If so, this is the podcast episode for you! S5 P1 The new series of The Rest is Lean Podcast gets underway, full of interesting discussion and plenty of laughs This episode provides Alan with some opportunity to vent his frustrations on recent social media posts he's seen regarding topics such as...
Send us Fan Mail Can Lean tools & techniques be applied successfully in all walks of life? Which Gemba would you like to visit to develop your knowledge and experience? From design offices to premier league football, Team TRIL discuss and debate if lean thinking is transferrable, and if so, what analogies can we draw from typical lean manufacturing? S4 P12 Our final podcast of this series is full of interesting discussion and plenty of laughs As well as Lean Leadership in elite sports s...
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