Podcast appearances and mentions of Daniel T Jones

Dominique Levin is a 2x CEO, a go-to-market architect, and a wildly successful investor with over a billion dollars in exits. She's seen it all, and she has a playbook for a lot of challenges founders face while building their companies.⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.comLinks-Dominique Levin on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominiquelevinBook that Dominique Levin:1. Survival to Thrival: She mentioned this is a two-book series written by Bob Tinker and Tae Hea Nahm. * Book 1: Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup (The Company Journey) * Book 2: Survival to Thrival: Change or Be Changed (The People Journey)2. The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos.

What if you could create mind-blowing improvements in your performance and life with minimal effort every day? In this episode, we introduce Kaizen—the Japanese philosophy of small, consistent improvements that has fueled massive success in industries like manufacturing. Learn how applying this simple but powerful concept to your own life can help you crush your goals without the burnout.Get up to 48% off Magic Mind mental performance shots. Go to https://magicmind.com/anthonysanni and use CODE: ANTHONYS20The Vital Few (TVF) Timestamps:[00:00] – What Is Kaizen and Why It Works[03:01] – Stop Chasing Big Changes: Why Small Wins Matter More[06:09] – Fitness, Finance, and Compounding: The Real Power of Incremental Growth[15:25] – The Invisible Path to Success: Why 1% Matters Every Day[16:54] – How to Start Using Kaizen Right NowNotes and ReferencesKaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive SuccessImai, Masaaki. Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success. McGraw-Hill, 1986.For those interested in learning more about Kaizen and how this principle transformed Japan's manufacturing industries, check out Masaaki Imai's classic book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success. It's a great read for understanding the roots of this continuous improvement philosophy.Lean Management and Six SigmaWomack, James P., and Daniel T. Jones. Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. Simon & Schuster, 2003.Kaizen is closely associated with Lean management and Six Sigma, frameworks widely used to reduce waste and improve efficiency. For more on these, consider reading Lean Thinking by James Womack, which gives an in-depth look into how these concepts can help businesses grow and thrive.Einstein's Quote on Compounding InterestThe attribution of the quote “Compounding interest is the eighth wonder of the world” to Albert Einstein is widely debated, and there's no definitive evidence that he actually said it. Whether or not Einstein said it, the principle behind it is incredibly powerful. By making small, consistent improvements—just like compounding interest—you can see exponential growth in almost any area of life.Compounding Interest and 1% Daily ImprovementIf you improve by just 1% every day, that adds up much faster than most people expect. Over the course of a year, those 1% gains can compound into something like 37 times better performance. While this example simplifies things a bit, the principle of compounding is key here. It's about getting a little better each day and letting those gains multiply over time.Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)Sanni, Anthony. The 80/20 Way to Productivity: Do More by Doing Less. Anthony's Book: The Law of The Vital FewAt 80/20 Productivity, we believe in focusing on the few things that make the biggest difference. This idea is based on the Pareto Principle, which tells us that 80% of our results come from 20% of our efforts. To dive deeper into this, check out The Law of The Vital Few which breaks down how you can apply this rule to everything from work to personal growth.

Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright, an Atlanta-based author, dynamic speaker, and strategic thought partner, writes to inspire transformation and change in communities, institutions, and personal lives. Her impactful work tackles deep-rooted challenges that demand identity shifts and enhanced capacities to achieve lasting, meaningful change. Dr. Wright champions authenticity, striving to align our aspirational identities with our lived realities. Dr. Wright is the author of seven influential books, served for 10 years on the senior leadership team as the director of enrollment management at the largest parish Episcopal school in the country, and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Emory School of Medicine.  Key Takeaways: Define yourself: “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive” – Audre Lorde Respect the dignity of every human being  Take the time to pause and look again  Your identity is not an obstacle – if it feels like one, it has not been truly seen Be careful of the ideas about certain identities you may project onto others Ask questions – be curious We have the power to write new beginnings and endings to our stories Lead with DIGNITY: Diversity, Identity, Growth, Nurture, Integrity, Transparency, Yield Authenticity is when aspirational identity aligns with lived reality Guest's Media Recommendations: Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or Less (book) edited by Daniel T. Jones and Miya Lee __ Find Guest's work: Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright's Website: https://bethsarahwright.com/ __ For more of Michael's work, visit our website www.incognitotheplay.com or follow us on Instagram @incognitotheplay __ Thanks to Ned Doheny for providing our podcast music! You can find him and his music on Spotify. Editing and co-production of this podcast by Nina Kissinger. Email info@incognitotheplay.com with questions or comments about the show!

 In this week's episode of the Maximize Business Value Podcast, Tom delves into the transformative power of implementing a robust business operating system (BOS). Join Tom as he explores the myriad benefits of adopting proven frameworks like EOS, Rockefeller Habits, Business Made Simple, OKRs, Lean Manufacturing, and Open Book Management.Every business inherently operates on some form of operating system, whether consciously crafted or organically evolved. However, the key lies in adopting a structured BOS to drive performance, set goals, monitor progress, and achieve results effectively. These systems provide a framework for accountability, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.With an array of BOS options available, Tom suggests exploring renowned methodologies outlined in influential books by thought leaders like Gino Wickman, Verne Harnish, Donald Miller, John Doerr, James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Jack Stack. While each system may have its unique elements, they all share a common goal of enhancing organizational efficiency and maximizing business value.CONNECT WITH TOMFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/masterypartnersLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-bronson/Website: https://www.masterypartners.com/Please be sure to like and follow for more great content to help YOU maximize YOUR business value!Tom Bronson is a serial entrepreneur and business owner. He is currently the founder and President of Mastery Partners, Mastery Mergers & Acquisitions, and the Business Transition Summit. All three companies empower business owners to maximize business value and serve business owners in different capacities to help them achieve their dream exit. As a business owner, Tom has been in your situation a hundred times and knows what it takes to craft the right strategy. Bronson is passionate about helping business owners and has the experience to do it. Tom has two books to help business owners on their journey to a dream exit: "Maximize Business Value Playbook," (2023), and "Maximize Business Value, Begin with the EXIT in Mind," (2020). Both are available on Amazon. ...

What is the Origin of Lean Manufacturing?We see the roots of Lean in the writings of Ben Franklin. In his book, Poor Richard's Almanac, he writes about the reduction of waste when he writes, “avoiding unnecessary costs could provide more profit than increasing sales”.Franklin's thoughts are further developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor in his 1911 book, Principles of Scientific Management. Taylor outlined and named the process of “Proto-Lean”, calling it Scientific Management. He wrote, “Whenever a workman proposes an improvement, it should be the policy of the management to make a careful analysis of the new method, and if necessary, conduct a series of experiments to determine accurately the relative merit of the new suggestion and of the old standard. And whenever the new method is found to be markedly superior to the old, it should be adopted as the standard for the whole establishment."Shigeo Shingo read Taylor's book and dedicated his life to the furtherance of Scientific Management. He and Kiichiro Toyoda refined Taylor's philosophies in the textile and automotive industries. As time went on, the great engineer, Taichi Ohno, brought these methods together to form the philosophy known as “The Toyota Production System”.In 1988, we first see the term “Lean” in John Krafchik's article, Triumph of the Lean Production System.Next, we see the term, “Lean Manufacturing” surface as the philosophy of Lean is detailed further by James Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos in the 1990 book ‘The Machine that Changed the World.' Womack and Jones continued to clarify the Lean Philosophy in their 1996 book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. In that book, they laid out five key principles, “Precisely specify value by specific product, identify the value stream for each product, make value flow without interruptions, let the customer pull value from the producer, and pursue perfection”. From that time on Lean Manufacturing was a mature business philosophy.What is Lean?Let's start by saying that Lean means many things to many people. It has its purists, its revisionists, its visionaries, and its charlatans. So, it is important to think of Lean as a general school of thought rather than a specific discipline.Since the dawn of time, the desire to manufacture things has been a very human trait.Almost no other creature makes things, and humans alone engage in mass production.We human beings have been continually improving things for eons. Each generation improves upon the last.The Term Lean Manufacturing or Lean was first defined by James Womack and Daniel T. Jones in the Book Lean Thinking – Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation – 1996. They defined Lean as “a way to do more and more with less and less - less human effort, less equipment, less time, and less space - while coming closer and closer to providing customers exactly what they want."We at Avanulo believe that Lean is a business philosophy that calls for process owners to relentlessly pursue the reduction of variation for the benefit of the customer. We also believe that people will naturally seek to improve their environment, work processes, and lives whether or not there is a formal system to help them do so, and that Lean Manufacturing is a school of thought and some tools, that help us to . . . “Improve the way we improve”. Lean is a Meta-Improvement System.Lastly, we believe that Lean Manufacturing is mostly tactical, local, and very human. It is not a generic strategy, but an augmentation to an organization's generic strategy.Why is Lean an important part of a Leader's toolbox?Rational Reason – Lean provides an educational base, an integrated set of methods, and a vetted set of tools, for...

Colin Cooper is the state's first Chief Manufacturing Officer, an exciting position with a ton of potential value for the manufacturing community in CT. Colin's experience, background and clear passion for manufacturing makes him the perfect person for the role. Not only that, but he truly understands the concept: 'if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem'! In this episode, Colin and Ari first talk about stories and lessons learned from Colin's days running the Whitcraft Group. Then they delve into the challenges he faces in his CMO role and the solutions he is working to bring to the table. This is an episode every manufacturing leader should see/listen to! Colin Cooper, Chief Manufacturing Officer, Department of Economic and Community Development Colin's email: Colin.Cooper@ct.gov Ari Santiago, President/CEO/Founder, IT Direct Company Website: https://www.gettingyouconnected.com/ Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itdtech/ Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/it-direct-llc Ari's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asantiago104/ Book discussed in this episode: Lean Thinking, James P Womack and Daniel T. Jones Podcast produced by Miceli Productions: https://miceliproductions.com/ Follow the podcast on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/MadeinAmericaPodcast/

    Die neue schlanke Linie im Management   Überflüssige Kilos stören nicht nur, sie machen auch langsamer und sorgen dafür, dass dir schnell die Luft ausgeht. Und genauso geht es auch deinem Unternehmen: Ballast macht es langsam und ineffizient. Abhilfe schafft hier der ursprünglich von Toyota entwickelte Lean-Ansatz. Bezog sich dieser anfangs nur auf Produktionssysteme, wurde die Philosophie des schlanken Arbeitens inzwischen auch auf zahlreiche andere Bereiche wie Management und Start-ups ausgeweitet. Wir zeigen dir im folgenden Artikel, wie Lean Management sowie Lean Startup funktionieren und wie du diese Ansätze erfolgreich für dein Unternehmen nutzen kannst.   Leanmanagement – das steckt dahinter   Das Vermeiden von Verschwendung, unnötigen Ausgaben und Kosten, Fehlern sowie das Erreichen bestmöglicher Qualität – so lässt sich Lean Management kurz und knackig beschreiben.   Lean Management bedeutet übersetzt schlankes Management. Schlank bezieht sich hierbei auf die effiziente Gestaltung der kompletten Wertschöpfungskette. Der Ursprung des Begriffs lean im Zusammenhang mit Industrie geht in die 1990er-Jahre zurück. Damals veröffentlichten Daniel Roos, Daniel T. Jones und James P. Womack das Buch „Die zweite Revolution in der Automobilindustrie“, in dem sie die qualitativ besonders hochwertigen sowie effizienten Produktions- und Entwicklungssysteme in der Automobilindustrie als Lean Production bezeichneten. Als Goldstandard der Lean Production gilt nach wie vor das Toyota Produktionssystem. Da Lean Production und Lean Management ihren Ursprung in der Automobilindustrie haben, stießen beide Ansätze vor allem in eben dieser Industrie auf sehr große Resonanz. Als Lean Management wurde das Prinzip der schlanken Produktion – auch übertragen auf eine schlanke Führung – auch in anderen Bereichen populär. So wurden die Grundprinzipien von Lean Production mit der Zeit auch auf andere Sektoren übertragen und es entstanden neben Lean Management auch Lean Engineering, Lean Selling, Lean Construction, Lean Medicine, Lean Government und Lean Administration. Als jüngster Spross der schlanken Linie gilt Lean Startup, das durch die Publikationen von Eric Ries große Popularität erlangt hat und sich mit schlanken Start-ups sowie schlanken Prozessänderungen in bestehenden Unternehmen beschäftigt. Obwohl die beschriebenen Prinzipien im Grunde immer dieselben sind, hat inzwischen dennoch eine Bedeutungsverschiebung stattgefunden. So steht im Lean Management nicht mehr eine schlanke Produktion im Vordergrund, sondern eine schlanke Führung. Dabei handelt es sich nun um eine neue Führungsphilosophie, die in ihren Grundzügen an die Idee der Lean Production angelehnt ist. Die ursprüngliche Idee wurde jedoch erweitert und für den Bereich Management adaptiert.   Das Toyota Produktionssystem als Vorbild für Lean Management   Die Ursprünge des Lean-Prinzips liegen beim japanischen Automobilhersteller Toyota, der bereits seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts auf schlanke Prozesse in Produktion und Management setzt. So konnten stabile Prozessorganisationen als Grundlage des bekannt hohen Qualitätsniveaus gestaltet werden.   Heute wenden so gut wie alle Branchen Lean Management mit großem Erfolg an. Dabei geht es längst nicht mehr nur um Lean Production, sondern auch um Lean Administration, Lean Maintenance und eben Lean Management. Zahlreiche Unternehmen setzen hierbei auf Lean Projekte, deren Vorbilder das Toyota Production System ist.   Werte schaffen ohne Verschwendung – die Ziele von Lean Management   Wie du dir bei der Übersetzung des Begriffs Lean – schlank – vielleicht bereits denken kannst, geht es bei Lean Management in erster Linie darum, Prozesse abzuspecken und von Ballast zu befreien.   So sollen für diSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2PU5W9H752VZJ&source=url)

Podcasts are sponsored by KaiNexus and their continuous improvement software platform -- www.KaiNexus.com Returning to the podcast after his first appearance in Episode #188 is Daniel T. Jones, founder and chairman of the UK-based Lean Enterprise Academy. You can find him on Twitter now as @DanielJonesLean. Dan collaborated with Jim Womack on the books The Machine That Changed the World, Lean Thinking, and Lean Solutions and published other books through the LEA. He is also a senior advisor to the relatively new website and journal "Planet Lean." In this episode, we talk about some of the progress being made in areas outside of manufacturing. Dan says there's "awareness everywhere" but asks if there's "real depth" in Lean progress? We'll discuss how we can reframe Lean for the public sector and healthcare as a way of going beyond mere cost cutting programs. What does Dan seeing happen in software and startup sectors with Lean in companies like Spotify in Sweden? How is interest in the core "respect for people" leading to a search for "more holistic management methods?" For a link to this episode, refer people to www.leanblog.org/216. For earlier episodes of the Lean Blog Podcast, visit the main Podcast page at www.leanpodcast.org, which includes information on how to subscribe via RSS or via Apple iTunes.

My guest for Episode 188 has been a leading voice in the Lean community for 25 years, Daniel T. Jones, founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy, based in the UK. Dan collaborated with Jim Womack on the books The Machine That Changed the World, Lean Thinking, and Lean Solutions and published other books through the LEA. Currently, Dan is helping promote Lean in healthcare and government and is learning about the Lean Startup community by becoming an advisor to the company Elastera. He has also recently joined Twitter as @DanielJonesLean. You can also watch recently-released free videos (via Gemba Academy) of Dan, Jim, and John Shook reflecting on 25 years of Lean and other topics. In this episode, we touch on all of these questions and also take a question via Twitter. For a link to this episode, refer people to www.leanblog.org/188.  Please leave a comment and join the discussion about the podcast episode. For earlier episodes of the Lean Blog Podcast, visit the main Podcast page at www.leanpodcast.org, which includes information on how to subscribe via RSS or via Apple iTunes. You can also listen to streaming episodes of the podcast via Stitcher: http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=leanblog If you have feedback on the podcast, or any questions for me or my guests, you can email me at leanpodcast@gmail.com or you can call and leave a voicemail by calling the "Lean Line" at (817) 776-LEAN (817-776-5326) or contact me via Skype id "mgraban". Please give your location and your first name. Any comments (email or voicemail) might be used in follow ups to the podcast.