The Edges of Lean explores topics in continuous improvement (lean thinking, creative problem solving, six sigma) that get overlooked. Meet the people practicing lean in odd places or with different twists, always with a focus on respect for people and continuous learning.
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Hear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of music.
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We are dedicated to literary news and author interviews.Tiah Short, Founder and Executive ProducerMartin Pratt, Co-Producer
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On RMA’s Channel 1 you’ll hear our shows: “Interview Sessions” with prominent musicians, celebrity artists, music industry people, and more – all related to rock music and it’s many genres; and “Rising Artist Spotlight” where we chat and listen a little to new rock artists trying to rise up and establish their careers. Plus, special guests and events from time to time!
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We are Probaytion, the people that work in the bay area, and specifically in the Alameda County Probation Department. We have real conversations about all the aspects of probation; the work of rehabilitation and the work to lesson criminal behavior in our inner cities. We take a balanced look at community supervision and we have honest conversations with the people that people our offices. There’s more than meets the eye of the government employee, we actually do care. We share conversations ...
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We believe sharing insights from different sectors is crucial for our mission to accelerate the global transition to a sustainable energy ecosystem. In our series of podcasts, we cover many topics related to Strategic Asset Management, like ISO 55000, Digitalization, Resilience, Risk & Portfolio Management and much more. Experts from different parts of the world, and from different asset-intensive sectors, such as utilities, oil & gas, airports, nuclear power and food production plants, shar ...
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Ep 135 Time Optimization with David Buck
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What’s the only thing we all have the same amount of? It’s the number of hours in our day. We live in a culture that is focused on productivity, but David Buck, the author of The Time Optimized Life, has a different perspective on time. He says we should be thinking about time optimization, not time management, and he bases his approach on lean thi…
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Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan were being surveilled and, in some cases, blacklisted by the FBI due to their political activism and ties to the U.S Communist Party. Writer and historian Aaron J. Leonard has written several books on the subject and is in to reveal why th…
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Experimenting with style: saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and metal trio Black Aleph
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London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Nubya Garcia is in Australia for Melbourne International Jazz Festival and to play shows in support of her new album Odyssey. Featuring vocalists like Esperanza Spalding and string players from Chineke!, Nubya revels in expanding her sonic palette and pushing jazz into the realms of dub, R&B, …
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Modernist composer Charles Ives at 150 and countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to Australia
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German countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to The Music Show whilst he’s in the country with the Australian World Orchestra. He talks to Andrew about the life of a countertenor: old repertoire, new repertoire, and looking after a voice when great demands are made of it. American pianist Donna Coleman deep dives into the life and influence of Americ…
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Music from a turbulent 17th-century England, and violinist Véronique Serret explores her voice
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Julia Fredersdorff, Artistic Director of Van Diemen's Band, talks about music from perhaps the most turbulent time in England's history - its Civil War. And, violinist, composer and vocalist Véronique Serret collaborates with nature on her latest (and ARIA Award nominated) album Migrating Bird.Por Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Ep 134 Continuous Improvement in a Time of Political Turmoil with Phyllis Leavitt
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It’s election season in the United States, and it affects us all, no matter how involved we are in politics. Deep fractures run through our families, neighborhoods, and workplaces, affecting our ability to live and work with each other. Phyllis Leavitt’s new book, America in Therapy, directly addresses this problem and what we can do about it. She …
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Ash Wednesday's AfterMATH on the organ, and the musical marriage of Lutyens and Clark
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Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark were a kind of power couple of the 20th century: she a prolific composer; he a less successful conductor but an influential producer and administrator. Annika Forkert is the author of Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark: the orchestration of progress in British twentieth-century music, and she tells Andy the story …
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Listening to Another Noise with Evelyn Glennie and Raymond Antrobus, and in the throes of Ecstasy with Marcus Whale
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Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and poet Raymond Antrobus are two of the UK’s most famous Deaf artists and their first collaboration is Another Noise, an album that captures first-takes of Raymond’s spoken word poems, accompanied by Evelyn’s percussion, completely improvised without her having prior knowledge of any poem performed. They join Andy…
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Ep 133 Meetings that Don't Suck with Jonathan Vehar and Cathi Brese Doebler
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One of the things that frankly drives me crazy about how people think about continuous improvement is a focus on cost savings rather than increasing productivity and engagement< so I was excited to chat with Jonathan Vehar and Cathi Brese Doebler about a brilliant method to increase productivity, drive engagement and save money. They joined me to t…
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Fiddles, folk and finding the light: The Crooked Fiddle Band and Angie McMahon
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Crooked Fiddle Band refer to their music as “chainsaw folk”, but their fourth studio album The Free Wild Wind & the Songs of Birds is heavier on the folk than on the chainsaw. The band comes into The Music Show studio to play live from the new album, and talk about eighteen years playing together. What’s it like to have thousands of fans sing your …
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The Outlaws: Henry Wagons remembers Kris Kristofferson, and Tami Neilson plays Willie Nelson
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Henry Wagons remembers Outlaw Country figurehead Kris Kristofferson, who has died at the age of 88. From Nashville to Hollywood, from Oxford University to the US Army, he had a life almost as unique as his voice. That leaves Willie Nelson the last of the Highwaymen, the original Outlaw supergroup, and his music is the subject of New Zealand-based C…
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Irish singer songwriter Susan O'Neill, and cellist Steven Isserlis's 'Team Fauré'
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With a voice that's 'equal parts balm and blowtorch' Irish multi-instrumentalist and singer songwriter Susan O'Neill makes a welcome return to The Music Show. She was one of our last live guests in March 2020 before she had to cut her tour short and race home. The last four years have been filled with nature, songwriting and collaboration and she j…
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Out front: advocate and songwriter Eliza Hull and conductor Sir Donald Runnicles
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Singer songwriter Eliza Hull has been writing and performing piano-driven pop music for over a decade. She's also a disability advocate and has championed increased visibility and access for musicians around Australia. Only in the last couple of years has she started sharing more about her own disability in her songwriting, including last year's EP…
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Ep 132 The Hidden Side of Coaching with Kelly Mallery
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Who are you when you are coaching? How are you presenting yourself to your learner? How might your inner emotional state affect your coaching effectiveness? Kelly Mallery coaches using the Toyota Improvement Kata and she joined me at the Edges of Lean to share some of her insights and what she has learned about the hidden side of coaching. Kelly Ma…
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Conductor Sam Weller's rise and songwriter Melody Pool's return
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Ten years ago Melody Pool was a rising star of the Australian folk music scene. She won awards and released two acclaimed albums of heartbreaking songs, and then she disappeared. It takes a lot of guts to step back publicly from the music industry when your career has so much momentum, but Melody made the decision to prioritise her mental health. L…
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Queer desire, mortality, and dancing scorpions: Sydney Chamber Opera’s Gilgamesh
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The gods are unhappy with a despotic king (Gilgamesh). They create a half-man, half-beast to topple him (Enkidu). They meet, Enkidu doesn’t topple him. They fall in love, destroy a forest, there’s retribution from the gods. Enkidu dies and Gilgamesh wonders what the point of life is. He searches for immortality. And of course there are dancing scor…
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Ep 131 Unblocking the Organization with Jurriaan Kamer
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We know that autonomy is one of the factors that leads to high employee satisfaction and that organizational alignment is required to achieve company goals. But how do you get both autonomy and alignment? Jurriaan Kamer believes that companies can achieve aligned autonomy, and there are specific actions leaders can take to reach this goal. He joine…
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Trainhopping with Hurray For The Riff Raff, and jazz, classical and ambient meet in a Requiem Mass
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Alynda Segarra has been making music as Hurray For The Riff Raff for nearly two decades. They ran away from NYC as a teen to ride trains across states—busking, sleeping rough and meeting all sorts of characters. They then settled in New Orleans and their music career kicked off, but their ninth and latest album, The Past Is Still Alive, finally sha…
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Laurie Anderson in the air with Amelia Earhart
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Performance artist, composer, and violinist Laurie Anderson once told The Music Show that she sometimes starts off thinking something is an opera, and it ends up being a potato print. Her latest album, Amelia, began life as a much longer orchestral piece that “didn’t work at all”, but at least it avoided the fate of becoming a potato print. It’s a …
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Arnold Schoenberg at 150: a complicated and crucial man
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Arnold Schoenberg’s music tore a hole in the fabric of the twentieth century. Over the course of his life, he charted a new course through expressionism, atonality, and ultimately to the invention of twelve tone serialism. As the father of the Second Viennese School, he’s been both cursed and adored (often at the same time) by the people who’ve tak…
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Sandy Evans the eternal collaborator, and the music of speech
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Jazz has always been about innovation and collaboration, and saxophonist and composer Sandy Evans has excelled on both counts for nearly four decades. She returns to The Music Show studio to perform live with an eclectic trio—the bass trombone of Adrian Sherriff and Suresh Vaidyanathan's ghatam (Indian clay drum). Sandy reflects on a life filled wi…
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Larry Sitsky turns 90, and Chloe Rowlands crosses the country with her trumpet
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Composer Larry Sitsky is a charming sort of thorn in the side of the Australian music scene, and he’s about to turn 90. In this conversation recorded at the 2024 Canberra International Music Festival, he doesn’t hold back. New York based trumpeter Chloe Rowlands divides her time between playing with art brass quartet the Westerlies, and with groups…
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The last violin of Harry Vatiliotis, and writing for big band and strings
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Romano Crevici has been playing violins made by Harry Vatiliotis for decades. Now drawing to the end of their respective careers, Harry has made one final instrument, which will be Romano's last violin too. The process, challenged by sore joints, thin skin, and Harry's caring responsibilities to the love of his life Maria, have been captured in a m…
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Ep 130 Continuously Reducing Racism in Your Company Culture with JD Mass
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A diverse organization is a competitive advantage –innovation and problem-solving thrive when people from diverse backgrounds work together. No matter who we are, when we move into that diverse environment, we all, no matter our race, carry baggage from racism in our culture. JD Mass has written a book called “Race for What,” addressing the causes …
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E35: Chris Wyse - The Vampire Explores Unusual Dark Areas Of Music Taking Bowed Bass To New Heights.
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Chris Wyse - bass player for the Hollywood Vampires, talks with The RMA's Cole Coleman and Claudio Pesavento about his exploration of sonic textures and twisted dark topics like "Jack The Ripper" as we explore his solo career music and sample releases "Violent Center," "Haunted Bass," "Embryo & Children of the Grave," and "St. Jude." We'll also ask…
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Good times and bum times, she’s seen them all and she’s here: Geraldine Turner, lynchpin of the Australian music theatre scene from 1970s repertory to the current run of The Mousetrap, reflects on her massive career (so far), her love of Sondheim, and Judy Garland. Geraldine Turner is performing in The Mousetrap until 15 September. Music heard in t…
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Kate Fagan’s Song in the Grass, and what makes a perfect News theme
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Friend of The Music Show Kate Fagan’s new book of poetry is entitled Song in the Grass and it’s full of music. She returns to the show to talk about the book, the relationship between her musical and poetic writing, and her enduring connection to folk artists Peggy Seeger and Lisa O’Neill. The ABC’s iconic old News theme is new again: a new version…
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Polyrhythms, percussion and pop music with Tune-Yards, and how to start a record label
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Harnessing looping pedals, percussion and vocal manipulation, Tune-Yards make a very big sound for a core membership of two people. It's been ten years since the experimental pop project released their third album Nikki Nack and creepy hit Water Fountain. Songwriter and singer Merrill Garbus is on The Music Show to talk about the duo's complex rhyt…
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Herbie Hancock on keys & Tenzin Choegyal on the roof of the world
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Legendary jazz pianist Herbie Hancock returns to The Music Show. He’s a bandleader, a composer and a professor, and at the age of 84 he’s got one of the longest living memories in the jazz world. He joins Andy to remember collaborators like Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter, and to ask whether jazz can be a path towards peace. Tenzin Choegyal is a Tibe…
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