The Lean 911 Podcast is where you'll have a voice directly from the gemba. Host, Mark DeLuzio, President and CEO of Lean Horizons Consulting and the principal architect of the Danaher Business System, relies on his three decades of lean successes as well as his failures to answer your most challenging questions regarding your lean transformation.
Lean 911
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The Lean 911 Podcast is where you'll have a voice directly from the gemba. Host, Mark DeLuzio, President and CEO of Lean Horizons Consulting and the principal architect of the Danaher Business System, relies on his three decades of lean successes as well as his failures to answer your most challenging questions regarding your lean transformation.
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Recent Episodes
June 15, 2026
How Hansei Builds Better Leaders
A CNC machine crashed on the shop floor. Nathan Corliss walked out as a young supervisor, angry and ready to blame the operator. What happened next became one of the most important leadership lessons of his career. Mark DeLuzio and Nathan talk about the moment that forced Nathan to confront his own behavior as a leader, and how the scars on his knuckles became a permanent reminder to pause, reflect, and lead differently. The conversation centers on hansei, the Lean practice of honest self-reflection, and why it matters when pressure is high, mistakes are visible, and people are watching how leaders respond. You'll hear how one shop floor incident connects to emotional intelligence, respect for people, Kaizen report-outs, after-action reviews, standard work, compliance, and the danger of fear-based leadership. For Lean leaders, CI managers, plant managers, and executives, this episode is a practical reminder that culture is shaped in the moments when things go wrong. The real test is not whether leaders know the right Lean language. It is whether they can own their mistakes, protect trust, and help people improve without shutting them down.
June 1, 2026
Replay: Standard Work
This is an unedited replay of a previous Lean 911 episode, originally published on January 13, 2023. We're bringing it back because the issue still causes Lean transformations to stall, drift, or flatline. One of the most misunderstood parts of Lean, Standard Work, is often dismissed as unnecessary. So many companies contend that they are "doing" Lean, but leave Standard Work by the wayside. In this episode, you'll learn the answers to the most perplexing questions, notions, and beliefs regarding Standard Work, which is a key component of the Toyota Production System.
May 15, 2026
The Six Sigma Hysteria
In this episode, we dive into the rise, dominance, and controversy surrounding Six Sigma — the corporate improvement system that promised near-perfect quality and became a management obsession across America. From Motorola's statistical revolution to Jack Welch's aggressive rollout at General Electric, Six Sigma evolved from a useful quality tool into what some critics call a full-blown corporate ideology. Drawing from Mark DeLuzio's provocative essay "The Six Sigma Hysteria," we explore why many Lean practitioners believed Six Sigma created more bureaucracy than breakthrough innovation. We unpack the clash between Lean thinking and Six Sigma methodology, the explosion of belt certifications and consulting culture, and the argument that companies became obsessed with measuring defects while ignoring waste, flow, and human creativity. Along the way, we examine real-world stories from Toyota, Danaher, and GE, and from factory floors where frontline employees solved problems that data alone could not. We also ask a bigger question: Are modern businesses repeating the same mistake today with AI, Agile, and productivity frameworks? This episode is about more than Six Sigma. It's about the danger of turning tools into religion — and what happens when companies mistake methodology for culture.
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