Best Fishbone Podcasts (2024)

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366: "Tinkerbell Is Dead" - Thomas And The Magic Railroad (2000)

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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Thomas And The Magic Railroad from 2000 starring 17-time SNL host Alec Baldwin as Mr. Conductor. So this was a huge mistake. Turns out this movie isn't interested in helping you understand what the hell is going on so we spend the majority of the podcast simply confused by the lore of magical trains who d…

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365: "Soak My Coark" - Jimmy Fallon Breaking - An SNL Recurring Character Study

8d ago

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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we did something a little different. Instead of watching a recurring character we watched a selection of SNL sketches where Jimmy Fallon adorably broke chara…

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E109: The Lean Journey at Rockwell Collins with Clay Jones - Part 6 15:28

4d ago15:28

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This is the final part of the 2006 speech given by Rockwell Collins CEO, Clay Jones. I worked at Rockwell Collins from 1999-2017, and was heavily involved in the Lean Electronics program. In this clip, he answers audience questions: 1) How to immerse Lean into the culture? 2) How is he going after employee healthcare costs? (asked by George Koenigs…

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364: "A 2004 Burrito" - White Chicks (2004)

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This week on Saturday Night Jive (actually almost a year ago on Saturday Night Jive) we watched the 2004 comedy White Chicks starring SNL alum Damon Wayans.....'s brothers Shawn and Marlon as horrifying creatures that we are expected to believe can pass as rich white women. This was intended to be a "lost episode" of the podcast just because I thou…

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E108: The Lean Journey at Rockwell Collins with Clay Jones - Part 5 12:28

8d ago12:28

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This is part 5 of the 2006 speech given by Rockwell Collins CEO, Clay Jones. I worked at Rockwell Collins from 1999-2017, and was heavily involved in the Lean Electronics program. In this clip, you'll hear him discuss the 5 lessons learned from the first 8 years of the Lean journey at Rockwell Collins (1998 to 2006). Senior Leadership alignment Man…

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363: "Give Me Some Funny Banjo" - Shana and Trina - An SNL Recurring Character Study

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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched two characters from the same performer. Kristen Wiig is an absolute delight as Shana, the hot lady who does weird things but befuddles us as Trina…

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E107: The Lean Journey at Rockwell Collins with Clay Jones - Part 4 17:56

22d ago17:56

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This is part 4 of the 2006 speech given by Rockwell Collins CEO, Clay Jones. I worked at Rockwell Collins from 1999-2017, and was heavily involved in the Lean Electronics program. In this clip, you'll hear him discuss how they expanded on the Core Process Optimization efforts to move to Lifecycle Value Stream Management. This allowed them to addres…

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362: "Speaking Of Will Sasso...Plus VIEWER MAIL" - B.A.P.S (1997)

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This week on Saturday Night Jive we finally watched B.A.P.S from 1997 starring one-time SNL host Halle Berry, Martin Landau, one-time SNL host Bernie Mac, and of course everyone's favorite white rapper/stand-up comic Barry Sobel. At long last, Ben's dream came true and we watched this random 90's comedy. Surprisingly it's not as cringy as one might…

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361: "Poo Poo, Farts And Vomit" - SNL S20E12 - Bob Newhart / Des'ree

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We lost a legend recently and this week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the Bob Newhart episode of SNL from the disastrous Season 20. In the height of SNL's "bad boy" era, they brought on the television icon to class up the joint a little bit. What results is an all-around solid and fun show, while maybe not the downright classic that George reme…

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360: "Milking The Gorkon" - The Land Of Gorch - An SNL Recurring Character Study

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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched one of the earliest SNL recurring characters, that's right, Ben gets introduced to King Ploobis, Scred, Puuta, Vosh and the rest of The Land Of Go…

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359: "Special Thanks To Elayne Boosler" - Meatballs Part 2 (1984)

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This week on Saturday Night Jive We watched Meatballs Part 2 because Bill Murray was in the first Meatballs. We've never seen the first Meatballs movie but that doesn't matter since this movie was never intended as a sequel to Meatballs. It was just a movie that resembled Meatballs a lot (we suppose as we've never seen it) that featured a character…

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358: "Robin Duke Only Exists To Titillate Me Sexually" - SNL S08E06 - Robert Blake / Kenny Loggins

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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the illusive episode of SNL hosted by alleged murderer Robert Blake. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely not. But could it ever live up to our expectations? Let's talk about it. Also, how frigging hot is Mary Gross? This episode has Robert Blake punching Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a Little Rascals reunion, homoph…

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357: "I Can't Wait To See G.E. Smith's Face" - SNL S16E16 - Jeremy Irons / Fishbone

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This week Ben had the option to pick anything he wanted to watch and he chose the Jeremy Irons episode of Saturday Night Live with musical guest Fishbone. Why did he do this? Because he likes Fishbone. So, what did we learn? Maybe you shouldn't pick an old episode of SNL for the musical guest because this is one of the most forgettable episodes eve…

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E106: The Lean Journey at Rockwell Collins with Clay Jones - Part 3 11:55

3M ago11:55

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This is part 3 of the 2006 speech given by Rockwell Collins CEO, Clay Jones. I worked at Rockwell Collins from 1999-2017, and was heavily involved in the Lean Electronics program. In this clip, you'll hear him discuss why they brought in some external consultants like John Shook and Denny Mead to try and figure out why all the improvements were not…

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E105: The Lean Journey at Rockwell Collins with Clay Jones - Part 2 12:17

3M ago12:17

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This is part 2 of the 2006 speech given by Rockwell Collins CEO, Clay Jones. I worked at Rockwell Collins from 1999-2017, and was heavily involved in the Lean Electronics program. In this clip, you'll hear him discuss how they created and rolled out Lean Electronics program across both manufacturing and the office, and selected Decorah (Iowa) as th…

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E104: The Lean Journey at Rockwell Collins with Clay Jones - Part 1 8:32

4M ago8:32

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For the next few podcasts, I'll be sharing clips from a 2006 speech given by Rockwell Collins CEO, Clay Jones. I worked at Rockwell Collins from 1999-2017, and was heavily involved in the Lean Electronics program. I credit Clay and the "Lean Electronics" program for giving me the skills and experience to make this my passion, allowing me to eventua…

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356: "I Never Liked It To Like It" - Goat Boy - An SNL Recurring Character Study

4M ago

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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched Goat Boy in all his glory. As we established the last time we did this with Mango we are giving ourselves an out. There are 10 SNL sketch appearan…

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355: "We're All Going To Hell" - The Other Sister (1999)

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The Other Sister directed by our good friend Garry Marshall and starring Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi as two mentally challenged adults who find love is a movie that shouldn't have been made. We shouldn't have watched it. In fact, this movie killed the podcast for a little bit as it sent George down an existential rabbit hole where he questio…

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354: "Charlie Chaplin Farts" - Big And Hairy (1998)

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Ummmm, this movie exists. It's about a bigfoot who plays basketball. Ben is insane and liked it. George is realistic and thinks it's a crappy TV movie starring a guy in a cheap looking monkey suit. You can check it out on YouTube, don't watch the whole thing, or any of it. No SNL cast members in Big And Hairy from 1998 but Enjoy! Full archive of al…

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E103: How to gather data before starting an improvement project 7:01

5M ago7:01

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In a recent class I taught, we were discussing the Project Charter, which asks you to fill in the baseline data for the metric you're trying to improve. I explain how you need to be persistent to find data, and not to start a project if you don't have any data, especially for a training class, or for your first project. I also answer a student ques…

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353: "Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls" - Lyle Lyle Crocodile (2022)

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Get ready for the most magical time of your life as Academy Award winner Javier Bardem dances with a CGI crocodile voiced by Shawn Mendes in the delightful Lyle Lyle Crocodile also featuring SNL alum Ego Nwodim. While George thinks this is a wonder of modern cinema (possibly due to a dangerous amount of psychedelic substances), Ben can't enjoy thin…

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E102: How Green Belt training can benefit you personally and your organization 5:07

5M ago5:07

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In this podcast, I share a short clip from a recent training class, explaining the benefits of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training to an organization, but more importantly, why it's important to the people attending the clas personally. If you're interested in taking a Lean, Green Belt or Black Belt course, consider these self-paced affordable cours…

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352: "Six Seasons And A Movie" - SNL Failed Pilots

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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking some television pilots that never got picked up to see a full season that feature some SNL alums. We watched Norman's Corner starring the late, great Gilbert Gottfried and written by former SNL writer Larry David. The also late and also great Charles Rocket stars as a spaceship captain in the sci-fi sp…

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351: "Give It To Mushnik" - SNL At The Oscars

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It's Hollywood's biggest night and Saturday Night Jive is celebrating. In honor of Robert Downey Jr. becoming the first SNL alum to win an Oscar we're talking about all the Saturday Night Live cast members who have ever been nominated for acting awards. This gives us an opportunity to talk about some actually good movies that we would otherwise nev…

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350: "I Need Ass Cream For My Ass" - The Jerky Boys The Movie (1995)

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You know what's not fun? Crank phone calls. You know what's even less fun? Staged crank phone calls. Get out your ass cream and dust off your offensive accents, we watch The Jerky Boys: The Movie from 1995 starring The Jerky Boys, Alan Arkin, Big Pussy, William Hickey, and the guy from Frankenhooker. No SNL alums this week, Ben picked some random s…

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E101: My thoughts on former Boeing Quality Manager (John Barnett) interview prior to death 7:50

6M ago7:50

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In episode 101, I share an interview clip from John Barnett, former Boeing Quality Manager, as he discusses the culture of quality that might explain the recent airline issues. He was found dead while he was giving a deposition about his former company, but I don't go into those details. I wanted to share my insights about a comment he made that in…

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349: "Get A Look At Them Nubs" - SNL S9E16 - Michael Douglas / Deniece Williams

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It's been said many times on this podcast, George loves him some Mary Gross. For all you doubters out there, he proved why by forcing Ben to watch an episode of Saturday Night Live from Season 9 hosted by Michael Douglas. Coffee infused blood, totally rad 80s music videos, busty 7 year olds, a town without feet, a host with an open headwound, and b…

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348: "Motorboating Bebe Neuwirth" - Wild Palms (1993)

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Do you like Twin Peaks? Then you'll be utterly confused by Wild Palms almost as confused as SNL alum James Belushi who apparently didn't understand the script so just showed up on set and read his lines. Can't blame you, Jim. This is an indecipherable piece of nonsense. So the story is that ABC wanted to have another weird show to replace Twin Peak…

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E100: How 6 M's and Fishbone (Ishikawa) or Cause and Effect Diagrams Can Help Reduce Water Consumption Usage in your Company 7:07

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In episode 100, I share a segment of a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training course I conducted, where I went into details about the Fishbone Diagram and the 6 M's, and I thought you might find it useful. When you are trying to uncover possible causes of a problem, using the 6 M's with a Fishbone Diagram is a great way to enhance your team brainstormi…

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347: "Scarred-Up Burnt Sex" - Pay It Forward (2000)

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You want Oscars? Get two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey on the phone. Sweeten the deal with Academy Award winner Helen Hunt. Throw in Academy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment. But you really looking for Oscar gold? Then you need Jon Bon Jovi and, more importantly, SNL alum Jay Mohr. We watched Pay It Forward from 2000, a movie that is a fail…

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346: "More Bruce Vilanch References" - Mango Part Two - An SNL Recurring Character Study

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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. Last time we gathered we watched the first 10 appearances of Mango and surprisingly couldn't stay away so we're back for one more slice of that sweet, sweet Mango pie.…

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E99: Excerpt from the book, "Lean Six Sigma for Good - Lessons from the Gemba (Volume 1)" 6:56

7M ago6:56

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In episode 97, we released an excerpt by Elisabeth Swan from "Lean Six Sigma for Good: Lessons from the Gemba (Volume 1)" This is an excerpt from the audiobook version Volume 1. I share the story of running a small nonprofit organization in Portland, called Recycling Advocates (now called Waste-free Advocates). We created a fundraiser conference ca…

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E98: Lean Six Sigma training and Coaching Program Case Studies 11:56

8M ago11:56

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In this podcast, I expand on Podcast #96, where I talked about the questions to consider in a training and coaching program. I go through 6 different case studies of customized training and coaching programs I've helped develop with clients to meet their specific needs, and how the payback on training is often as short as a few months! If you'd lik…

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E97: Excerpt from the book, "Lean Six Sigma for Good - Lessons from the Gemba (Volume 2)" 6:44

8M ago6:44

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This is an excerpt from the audiobook version of "Lean Six Sigma for Good: Lessons from the Gemba (Volume 2)" Elisabeth Swan shares the story of volunteering with the Cape Cod Childcare Development nonprofit organization. She discusses getting a call from the CEO to help the organization utilize more Lean Six Sigma Green Belt skills and methods wit…

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E96: What is the best option for effective Lean Six Sigma training and coaching? 12:20

8M ago12:20

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When I talk to clients about training their team, that usually opens up a lot of questions in my mind that we'll need to discuss before I can give them a ballpark number quote. In this podcast, I run through the questions you need to consider in order to create an effective training program that will result in hands-on application and payback on th…

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345: "Fumble-rooni" - Necessary Roughness (1991)

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We're digging into the Rob Schneider bucket once again this week as we watched Necessary Roughness from 1991 featuring the Robmeister calling plays for a football team full of underdogs. Let me ask you a question. If I said I found a movie that features Scott Bakula, Kathy Ireland, Larry Miller, Robert Loggia, Sinbad, Senator Fred Thompson and of c…

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344: "A Disturbing Crush On Elizabeth Holmes" - Good Burger 2 (2023)

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We're finally here. A podcast years in the making We're finally going back for another taste of Ed's special sauce with Good Burger 2 starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson and featuring a cavalcade of SNL cameos like Leslie Jones, Pete Davidson, Ego Nwodim, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, Andy Samberg, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, and Maya Rudolph.…

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E95: Hypothesis Testing Basics - Can James Bond tell the difference between a shaken or stirred martini? 4:37

8M ago4:37

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To explain the concepts of hypothesis testing (null and alternative hypothesis statements), I use an example of James Bond. His famous line is "shaken, not stirred" when ordering a martini. In a hypothesis test, we would set the null (default) hypothesis to say that he cannot tell the difference. The alternative hypothesis would be proven if there …

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343: "Fountains Of Racist Jizz" - Mango Part One - An SNL Recurring Character Study

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And we're back with another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. We're also back to doing episodes of Saturday Night Jive after a hiatus that is all Garry Marshall's fault. This week we're talking Mango played by the inimitable Chris Ka…

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E94: Interested in a Free "Lean at Home" Coaching Program? 3:39

9M ago3:39

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Back in 2020, I created a course called "Home Efficiency Using Japanese Lean Productivity Techniques" and I'm offering a free coaching program this month to help you complete the course and get help implementing the concepts into your personal life. Are you interested? Contact me at brion@biz-pi.com Links ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Home Efficiency Using Japanese Lean…

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E93: An overview of Statistical Process Control (SPC) 6:49

10M ago6:49

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In one of my recent Six Sigma classes, I provide a simplistic explanation of SPC and control charts, and why they are essential to detecting problems quickly in your processes. If you're interested in learning more about SPC, check out the link below. Links ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPC Module within Six Sigma Green Belt Training ⁠Lean Six Sigma Project Coaching Progra…

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E92: Should my kaizen event be a planning session or a working session? 8:16

10M ago8:16

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In one of my recent Lean classes, I discuss the difference between planning kaizen events and working kaizen events. Planning events end up with a 90-day implemenatation plan. Working events end up with 80% completion of actions by the end of the event, with 30 days to complete the remaining 20% of the actions. I try and encourage more working sess…

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E91: How can I get the most frontline worker participation in a kaizen working event? 6:23

10M ago6:23

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In one of my recent Lean classes, I discuss ways to engage front line workers in working kaizen events. I talk about the differences between working and planning sessions in my last podcast. I discuss options for working ahead, catching up afterwards, having half-day sessions (half kaizen, half working), splitting the event across many shifts, and …

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E90: Free Lean and Sustainability Webinar Series - Nov 28th and 30th 7:05

10M ago7:05

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I've been helping set up a webinar series with support from the Iowa Sustainable Business Forum and the Iowa Lean Consortium. There are two webinars you can choose from, or sign up for both. I will be presenting the first webinar, Lean Methods for Sustainable Organizations. I will introduce those in sustainability roles to Lean methods, which have …

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E89: Q&A from Six Sigma training - What to do when data collection system is under development? 5:11

11M ago5:11

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In this episode, I answer another question in one of my Six Sigma classes. The student said they were having supplier issues, but the data wasn't very good. There is a plan to implement a data collection system, but it might not be ready for a few months. Should she wait until the system is ready and then start her project, or start now and collect…

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E88: Q&A from Six Sigma training - What if solutions are part of your Six Sigma project charter? 7:45

11M ago7:45

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In this episode, I answer a question in one of my Six Sigma classes. The student said they were not sure if their project could be used, because it alreadys mentions some solutions to the problem, and the training said no solutions can be defined at the beginning of a Six Sigma project. He wanted to know how to handle this situation, which is very …

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E87: Six Sigma in Real Life: Taguchi Loss Function for Hotel Pool Temps and the Solar Eclipse 9:37

11M ago9:37

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In this podcast, I discuss the Taguchi Loss Function again, this time using some real-life examples. I discuss hotel pool temperatures, solar eclipses, and fruit ripeness. I originally talked about this topic in Episode 37, explaining how an increase in variation away from the target value (even within specification limits) leads to an exponential …

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E86: Camping and the 8 Wastes (TIM WOODS) 20:57

12M ago20:57

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In this episode, I go through TIM WOODS, which is an acronym to describe the 8 types of waste in a process. As an example, I discuss how the 8 wastes apply to recent camping trips I've been making with my wife this summer and fall. Hopefully, this gives you some ideas on how to see waste in your daily activities and work tasks. Sorry for the length…

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E85: Six Sigma Criticisms #1 - The Motorola 1.5 Sigma Shift 9:36

12M ago9:36

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In this episode, I discuss some common criticisms about Six Sigma that I've been hearing about over the years. These tend to make their rounds on LinkedIn every few months or years, so I wanted to take each one and go much deeper in the podcast than I can online. Let's start with one of the biggest ones, the 1.5 sigma shift, also called the Motorol…

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342: "Don't Worry Fat Kids" - Joe's Apartment (1996)

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It's Ben's pick this week on Saturday Night Jive and since he's not bound by the rules of picking movies that relate to SNL we watched the Don Ho classic Joe's Apartment from 1996. A beautiful love story about a kid in the big city fighting against corporate greed and trying to make his way in a world that doesn't understand him. Also there's anima…

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