Dan Hesse

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1,215 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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This is Dan Hesse and this is The Mentor's Radio.

Welcome back.

This is Dan Hesse, and we're learning why workarounds are not helpful in the long run with Nelson Repenning and Don Kiefer.

So in reading the book, Don, you talk about meeting Mr. Oba from Toyota when you were at Harley-Davidson, and this being the Mentor's Radio, we

often talk about mentors that have been important to us.

Would you consider him a mentor?

And I think one of the things he told you you needed to do was identify the right problem to solve.

How do you know if there's lots of problems?

How do you know which one's the right one?

How do you do that?

So the right problem versus the wrong problem, any clue to knowing that you've picked the right one to work on?

Both of you talk about the importance of picking also something small rather than large to start with, which is counterintuitive to me as a leader.

I mean, you're taught to think bold, urgency, make big changes, automate.

You know, there's probably some new technology, apply it ASAP.

Why is that often not the right course to take?

Well, we'll come back to executives getting their hands dirty, because I tend to agree, and I don't see enough of that.

We'll be back in a few minutes with the authors of There's Got to Be a Better Way, Nelson Repenny and Don Kiefer.

Welcome back.

This is Dan Hessian.

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