Why They Fail ... and the Simple Key to Success!
Kevin Clay, Master Black BeltTired of watching continuous improvement efforts crash and burn? So are we. "Why They Fail" dives headfirst into the brutal truth behind failed Lean Six Sigma deployments, exposing the myths, the mistakes, and the outright absurdities that plague organizations worldwide. Forget the sugar-coated success stories—we're here to dissect the disasters, from executives who think training is optional to l... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 23 | Founded | a year ago |
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Haphazard continuous improvement does not just waste money. It blinds your teams, fractures trust, and quietly sets up every practitioner you train to fail. When corporate leadership throws disconnected lean tools at isolated problems without a struc... more
Bad cultures with bad leaders do not fix themselves. They buy their way out. A new warehouse management system. A bigger facility. An expensive digital platform. The same chaos, now running on software that costs a fortune.
In this episode of the Wh... more
Over 90% of corporate deployments fail within eighteen months. One of the most common reasons is the creation of continuous improvement silos. When process improvement is locked inside a single department or treated as a leadership checklist, cultura... more
Gen Z Grit: How Cheer Stunts Breed Future CEOs
Welcome to another episode of Why They Fail. In this episode, we tackle an exciting angle on organizational health: gen z leadership development. Many corporate leaders wonder how the next generation wi... more
Inside Amazon: Why Process Engineers Are Guides, Not Sages
Most companies build their continuous improvement programs the wrong way. They train a single green belt or black belt and expect that one person to fix everything. However, studying Six Sig... more
Beyond the Shiny Kanban: Driving a Real EBITDA Explosion
Most business leaders believe they are running a lean operation. However, if your Kanban cards are still moving to the beat of unstable MRP lead times, you are not pulling. You are running a h... more
Why Continuous Improvement Leaders Pick Crap Projects
Most continuous improvement programs fail within 18 months. The reason is almost always the same: leadership started by avoiding bad Six Sigma projects the wrong way. Instead of using data, they ... more
Fear and Loathing: The Danger of Numerical Goals
In this episode of the Why They Fail Podcast, we take on one of the biggest traps in modern management: the obsession with numerical goals.
Dr. W. Edwards Deming warned against this decades ago in his... more
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A hard-edged look at why continuous improvement initiatives fail, with blunt takes on leadership, culture, and the practical foundations required for sustainable results. Across episodes, listeners hear veterans and practitioners dissect doomed CI deployments, debunk myths about quick fixes, and share concrete tactics for building governance, data infrastructure, and cross-functional collaboration that actually sticks. Unique angles include real-world critiques of leadership behavior, hands-on comparisons of methods like Kanban, Shainin, and Lean Six Sigma, and accessible, story-driven lessons from government, healthcare, manufacturing, and tech environments. The show aims to help operators, managers, and consultants spot the warning signs ... more
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