Engaging Employees in Lean: Podcast Interview with Jay Watson

I recently had the pleasure of spending some time chatting with Jay Watson about engaging employees in Lean efforts.

Jay has worked at Motorola, GE, AlliedSignal, and Honeywell over his 35-year career, so the ideas he has about engaging employees are not just theory. He’s been doing this for a long time.

In this conversation, we talk a lot about how an engaged workforce is the difference maker when trying to improve the performance of a company. Jay makes the point that two companies with access to the exact same equipment and making a similar product can perform dramatically different. The reason? The level of engagement of a team can’t simply be bought out of a catalog. It can take years of effort to create a top-notch team that becomes a competitive advantage.

You can hear the full conversation in this installment of the Gotta Go Lean podcast. It runs about 15 minutes.