Newsletters

• Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape.
  Ryan always digs up interesting academic papers, trade rag pieces, and conference talks. It is on Substack (which is a bad service) but you can subscribe directly via RSS feed, too.

Blogs

• Katie Anderson’s Reflections on Leadership.
  Katie interviews authors of lean and lean-adjacent books.
• Jackie Colburn’s Facilitation Blog.
• Lisa Kagan’s Storytelling Blog.
  Continuous improvement work is 25% telling your stories, and 50% getting others to tell their own. Lisa is an expert at both.
• Adam Lawrence’s Kaizen Success Stories.
  Adam shares his experiences very energetically. There is a one-point lesson in each. Adam models how to lead and learn at the elbow.
• Mark Rosenthal’s The Lean Thinker.
  You get the feeling of someone sorting through twenty-year-old artifacts and making sense of them. How much has changed?
• Adam Yuret’s Stage 4 Capitalism.
  Adam writes “career-killing thoughts and experiences with executive consulting and maybe some cancer stuff.”

Podcasts

• The Just-in-Time Cafe.
  Tracy O’Rourke and Elizabeth Swan’s interview show. They bring on a nice variety of guests spanning industries, roles, and experiences, and ask super great questions.
• Behind the Curtain.
  Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer have started a weekly show “exploring the untold realities of improvement.” It’s great, although there is no audio/podcast-only feed (yet?).
• Jamie Parker’s Lean Leadership for Ops Managers.
  A really useful show. Episodes are short, but packed with theory and advice, and bundled up with reflections that leave you thinking.