* Steve Bera, Reflections on NUMMI and #Lean, Part 1

Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond · Jul 19, 2016 · 37m

See http://www.leanblog.org/256

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I'm really excited to have Steve Bera as my guest for episode #256 of the podcast. I read about him as he was featured prominently in a chapter of the 1994 Pulitzer-Prize winning book Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry. I just finished it during my recent flight back from China.

The book is about the struggles of the Detroit automakers in the 1980s and early '90s. Steve was featured in the book as he was one of the first 16 GM managers and leaders to be sent to work with Toyota at the famed NUMMI joint venture…