CEO of Growing Champions, LLC
Show notes: https://www.leanblog.org/426
My guest for Episode #426 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is John Gallagher, Founder and CEO of Growing Champions, LLC, an Executive Coach, Mentor, and Consultant. John was with Simpler Consulting for over a decade after being an operations manager and a division president for two different companies.
He's also the host of a new podcast called The Uncommon Leader. I'll be John's guest in an episode to be released on October 19th.
Today, we talk about topics and questions including:
Where did you first get exposed to Lean?
Why were you skeptical about Lean at first?
Came from MRP batch & queue world
Rapid Improvement Event or Rapid Planning Event?
His first sensei, the late Bill Moffitt
“Comfort the afflicted or afflict the comforted?”
Who were some of your key mentors?
Lean Thinking was a key book, the first book he read on Lean
Being an operations manager vs. a division president… what did you learn from those roles?
Applying Lean to residential real estate sales
Healthcare? Patients aren't cars?? Addressing that? Cookbook medicine?
“Unique care delivered in a standard way”
Tell us about the podcast…  inspired by Tony Dungy's book
Who have been some of your guests? — Including Paul De Chant
Who are some of the “uncommon leaders” you have worked for, worked with, or coached? What made them uncommon?
Posts I was reminded of
Lenny Walls, my trainer
Central Intelligence post
Sushi incrementalism post


Coaching work? Lean coach to exec coach?

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