Lean Blog Interviews

George Saiz on ”We Started With Respect” and His Career Focused on Improvement

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Episode page with video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #481 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is George Saiz. As a coach, writer, and speaker, George Saiz actively promotes enterprise excellence through a people-centric culture to the next generation of leaders.  In his new business novel, We Started with Respect, he shares from his executive experience in the medical device industry and the many best-practices sites he visited as president and CEO of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. He is retired and currently resides with his wife in Carlsbad, California. Questions, Notes, and Highlights: What's your Lean origin story? The Goal — a business novel The leader going first with the learning?? Compliance vs Commitment  Using Lean as business problem solving vs. tools for operations? Exposure then to Lean / TPS? The need to focus on process AND people (culture) What aspects of Lean don't work without a high enough level of mutual trust? Gallup surveys show that two out of three employee