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Spencer Maybee on What Lean Looks Like From The Start

Spencer Maybee on What Lean Looks Like From The Start

Update: 2025-06-23
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In this episode, Keith Norris sits down with Spencer Maybee—Vice President at Western Pipe Fabrication and second-generation small business leader—to explore what Lean looks like when you’re just getting started.

🔻 Why Lean clicked the first time Spencer heard it explained through welding

🔻 What it takes to push change inside a multi-generational family business

🔻 How small changes like shared spreadsheets made a big impact

🔻 What respect for people looks like

🔻 The real-life tension between tradition, growth, and new ideas

Whether you're building something from scratch or helping a small team get better every day, this episode is proof that Lean starts wherever you are—with the problems right in front of you.

🔗 Learn more about KPI Fire: https://www.kpifire.com/

🔗 Connect with Spencer Maybee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencer-maybee/

🔗 Explore Western Pipe Fabrication: https://www.wpfiut.com/

🔗 Hosted by Keith Norris – https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithnorris/

🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and everywhere you get your podcasts.

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Spencer Maybee on What Lean Looks Like From The Start

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