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The Rest is Lean

Alan Lothian, John Dee, Russell Watkins

The Rest is Lean Channel is a light-hearted and educational look at how to make businesses better through Lean Manufacturing and Operational Excellence. Suited for all levels of understanding and from any industry or geographical region. John, Alan & Russell are time-served lean professionals with over 30 years each in this field. Leading and coaching some of the best businesses from SMEs to multi-nationals. Trained by some of the highest calibre Japanese masters from Toyota(one step from Ohno himself), Honda and Nissan , we want to share our experiences with you, allowing some of these 'pearls of wisdom' to help make your business processes, people, and profitability that little bit better each day. We welcome your comments, questions, and guidance on future discussion topics so feel free to drop us a line via the comments section or via email. [email protected] Oh, and don't forget to subscribe!!

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  1. Building Capability The Toyota Way - The Resistance to Change Equation 32:48
  2. Freedom within a Framework - A Safe Place to Develop Leadership Capability & Empowerment 29:21
  3. Recruiting Lean Queens - LinkedIn Lunacy, Zoom Chaos & Gemba Games 30:40
  4. Lean v Elon Musk, Smugglers and "The Idiot Index" 31:52
  5. 5S, 6S or 7S? 7 or 8 Wastes? Find out what boils our p!$$ 30:53
  6. Which Gemba would you like to go to? Lean Leadership & Analogies in Premier League Football 32:00
  7. The Rest is Lean Podcast LIVE Edition at Subcon 2026 aka Why does lean fail & how to avoid it 42:12
  8. The TRIL Leadership Interview Series Part 2 - Mark Hemming 30:35
  9. The TRIL Leadership Interview Series Part 1 - Mark Hemming 31:13
  10. Our Visit to SubCon 2026 aka The Take That Man 19:57
  11. Questions to ask to get a feel for a business aka What problem are you trying to solve? 29:11
  12. The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Delphine Fillot 31:03
  13. Sustaining Lean Transformation aka How Long Do You Persevere? 32:15
  14. The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Ian Mountain 24:51
  15. Does removing variation inhibit innovation? aka The Normalisation of Deviation. 31:09
  16. Thank you for Stopping the Line aka John's 'Cuddly' Trip to Toyota Deeside 32:48
  17. Lean Browsers & Ugly Babies aka David's Sandwich 30:06
  18. The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Astrid Mozes 37:51
  19. How Lean Helps in Real Life aka The Puppet Show Looks Different but the Strings are the Same! 31:47
  20. Who's your Phone-A-Friend Al? aka The Problem, The Difficulty! 32:58
  21. The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Rob Marchant 41:34
  22. I'll Stop When You Squeak! aka What Happens if We Don't Improve? 32:28
  23. Leadership, Listening and Gemba aka Looking Through a Different Lens 34:35
  24. The Tact of Takt II aka You Can't Be a Little Bit Pregnant! 32:24
  25. The Tact of Takt aka A Trip to Japan 31:57
  26. The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Glyn Holman 35:57
  27. PDCA or CAPDo aka In-SPIRE-ing Lean 31:50
  28. Lean You Wouldn't Do? aka Red Flags & Frogs in Wells 31:18
  29. Voice of the Customer aka The 'Pull' of Learning 34:41
  30. Season 2 Finale aka Tool or not to Tool, That is the Question 28:52
  31. Too Much Lean, Is it possible? aka Tesla and Toyota Insights 31:45
  32. World Class Team Leader Training Ideas aka Is This Legal??? 32:24
  33. World Class Team Leader Competencies aka Going Global 30:12
  34. Visual Management, Gemba and Escalation aka 'The Autonomic System' 28:16
  35. Measuring SQCDP and ensuring value over cost aka 'The measures of unintended consequence' 34:10
  36. Keeping it simple is the key to sustainable lean transformation aka 'Goat or Car' 28:45
  37. #subcon2025 Special Edition. Podcast live at the NEC 'Why lean sustainability can fail' 30:41
  38. Barriers to sustainable Lean. Visible support & need 4 lean aka 'When no problem is a problem' 28:36
  39. Useful Gadgets & Team Dynamics for #lean professionals #nlp aka 'Man Down Man Down!' 44:51
  40. Quality, Cost & Delivery #qcd The essential KPI's for every lean team brief? aka Q&A Session 50:41
  41. The 4 types of problem solving skill. Is return to standard Kaizen? aka New season Rambling 43:32
  42. Rachel Reeves faces UK manufacturing questions aka 'Look after our SMEs & Apprentices!' 43:10
  43. Jugaad to TPM. The merits of using foreign words in your business aka "Talking Japanese' 40:45
  44. Start your lean journey. Is Honda, Toyota, Nissan's approach different? aka 'A Borg Mentality' 55:13
  45. Who is the best Operator? & how does a group share lean practice aka Buddy plants & pull 51:23
  46. Avoid the most common red tagging mistakes in 5S activities aka 'A Dose of 5S Part 2' 45:14
  47. Deploying 5S, 5C, Workplace Organisation. It's a Lean model, not a script aka 'A Dose of 5S' 45:21
  48. We name the toughest job in manufacturing & how to support them in lean aka "well meant intent" 48:51
  49. Live Pareto charts and alternate data for effective CI Op-ex and Lean, aka 'Skip Diving' 46:47
  50. Effective Start of Shift Briefs and the negative impact of bad ones aka 'Check-in Fury' 39:33