The Current State of Lean; Sharing Whiskey Samples; Bringing Lean Home

Episode page http://www.leanblog.org/whiskey7

Today, Jamie and Mark share whiskey samples from each other's collections and talk about some recent work projects. They explore whether you should bring Lean home, and apply it "with" (not "to"???) your spouse or family. Is Lean about efficiency when it comes to your home, or your marriage? What is the purpose? We also question whether the author was really doing any Lean, or just having fun with spreadsheets. 

We then explore Josh Howell's (newly minted President of the Lean Enterprise Institute) open question to the community about the current state of the lean management movement. To some degree, Mark and I reject the premise of the question, and we explain why, and we also do our best to answer it. We finish this episode sharing our recent favorite non-Lean, non-fiction books. 

Episode #7 Show Links:

Here are some links from the show: 

• Pendleton's Director's Reserve 20 Year Blended Canadian Whisky from Bounty Hunter that Jamie shared with Mark
• Garrison Brothers Balmorhea Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey that Mark shared with Jamie
• The NY Times article on auditing your life, apparently influenced by Lean
• Email us a reader mail question at leanpodcast@gmail.com
• LEI's question on the current state of Lean management 
• Book recommendations: House of Morgan, Titan, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Moneyball, The Big Short 
• Check out the podcast feed at LeanWhiskey.com or at leanblog.org/leanwhiskey or at jflinch.com/leanwhiskey