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Lean 911

Mark DeLuzio

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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#89
September 1 · 55 min
Lean at 8 Seconds – What NASCAR Pit Crews Can Teach Us About Lean
What can Lean leaders learn from a NASCAR pit crew, where three-tenths of a second can mean five car lengths and elite performance depends on five people executing as one? In this episode, we take the lessons from NASCAR’s pit road and translate them
#88
August 19 · 28 min
From Toyota to Danaher to Your Enterprise: Introducing Lean Horizons Academy
What if the Lean lessons that helped shape one of the world’s most respected business systems could be made available to everyone in your organization—anytime, anywhere, and in virtually any language? In this episode of Lean911, we introduce Lean Hori
#87
August 3 · 33 min
The Danaher Business System – 12 Things I’d Do Differently
When you build something that stands the test of time, its tempting to believe youd do it the same way all over again. But experience has a way of changing your perspective. In this episode, I look back at the creation of the Danaher Business System a
#86
July 15 · 1 hr 22 min
Be The Magic: 4 Phases to Transform Your Life with Manish Chauhan
What if the biggest transformation in your life begins with a simple shift in perspective—not from believing life is happening to you, but realizing it is happening through you? In this episode, we explore Be The Magic: 4 Phases to Transform Your Life b
#85
July 1 · 44 min
25th Anniversary Episode: Lean Horizons’ Reflections – The Rise of Lean Theater
As Lean Horizons celebrates its 25th anniversary, founder Mark DeLuzio reflects on a quarter century of transformation work across six continents and dozens of industries. In this special episode, Mark examines the evolution—and in some cases, the diluti
#84
June 15 · 54 min
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 abou
#83
June 1 · 26 min
Replay: Standard Work
This is an unedited replay of a previous Lean 911 episode, originally published on January 13, 2023. Were bringing it back because the issue still causes Lean transformations to stall, drift, or flatline. One of the most misunderstood parts of Lean, S
#82
May 15 · 48 min
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 Motorolas statistical revolution to Jack
#81
May 1 · 47 min
Your Machines Are Lying to You, and So Are Your Equipment Vendors – The Hidden Waste Most Manufacturing Engineers Ignore
Manufacturing Engineers pride themselves on precision, but what if the biggest waste is hiding in plain sight—inside the equipment itself? In this episode, we challenge the status quo: excess feeds, slow speeds, and bloated cycle times that no one que
#80
April 15 · 1 hr 10 min
What a Fighter Pilot Can Teach You About Selling Lean Value – with Randy Fitzhugh
In this powerful episode of Lean 911, Mark DeLuzio sits down with former Air Force fighter pilot and Danaher sales leader Randy Fitzhugh to unpack the real science behind value selling and why most organizations get it wrong. Drawing from his elite mi
#79
April 1 · 33 min
Standards Written in Blood – There May Be No Second Chance
Lean management teaches that standards are the foundation of safety, quality, and improvement. In aviation, those standards take the form of checklists, redundancies, procedures, and strict cockpit protocols designed to prevent human error. In this ep
#78
March 15 · 38 min
The CFO vs. Lean: The Fight That Gets Lean Leaders Fired
Mark DeLuzio, the Father of Lean Accounting, tells his experience and observations on how traditional cost accounting will derail a Lean Transformation. In many organizations, Lean transformations dont fail on the shop floor—they fail in the finance o
#77
March 1 · 29 min
The Illusion of Business “Logic” – Brilliant at Home, Illogical at Work
In this episode, youll be able to take away why many logical workplace measures and incentives can drive behavior that conflicts with Lean principles, and why comparing work decisions to everyday home-life decisions can make Lean concepts easier to under
#76
February 15 · 44 min
Book Review – Accidentally Aligned with Jason Neal
A shop floor comment stops everyone in their tracks: the work finally matches what the customer actually needs. That is the spark behind Accidentally Aligned, and it opens a bigger issue most leaders dodge: alignment does not come from posters, audits, o
#75
February 1 · 46 min
Are You Set Up to Win? – Find Out Here!
Most Lean efforts do not stall because people hate improvement. They stall because the system was never built to support it. This episode gives you a fast, practical lens for evaluating whether your organization is built to sustain improvement. You wi
#74
January 15 · 15 min
Stop Misusing the 2-Bin Kanban System
Mark DeLuzio discusses how the 2-Bin Kanban is meant to ensure the operator does not run out of parts. Find out why it should not be used to structure your primary Kanban system.
#73
January 8 · 41 min
Let’s Make 2026 a Year of “Return to the Basics”
Mark DeLuzio discusses the confusion that exists in the Lean Community, and the Lean Consulting industry and academia are primarily to blame. Returning to Lean Basics and ignoring distractions like Kata, Gemba Walks, Lean certifications, and other consul
#72
Dec 15, 2025 · 19 min
Where Are The Engineers?
Mark DeLuzio discusses the absence of engineers from the Gemba in both manufacturing and design. He also discusses the sin of engineering, which he calls Catalogue Engineers.
#71
Nov 15, 2025 · 35 min
Do You Really Understand the Toyota Production System House?
Mark DeLuzio discusses how the TPS House is not a set of tools, but a way of thinking, and that the tools of Lean support these principles. Starting with the tools before understanding the principles has proven to be the downfall of many companies starti
#70
Nov 1, 2025 · 16 min
How Do You Price Your Product?
Mark DeLuzio discusses the dangers of cost-based pricing as well as the various issues encountered when doing so. He introduces the merits of market-based pricing instead.

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