Jamie V. Parker
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Lean Leadership for Ops Managers is a podcast for leaders in Ops Management who’ve had some targeted success with Lean, but haven’t yet built the everybody-everywhere-everyday improvement culture they crave. In each episode, former Fortune 100 Ops Executive and Lean Enthusiast Jamie V. Parker will teach you how to engage your team, develop a Lean culture, and still get your day job done.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jamie V. Parker makes continuous improvement useful by connecting leadership ideas to routines, reflection, and the daily pressures of operations work.
Lean Leadership for Ops Managers turns workplace friction into practical questions about how leaders spend their time, develop people, and build continuous improvement into daily work. Jamie V.
A firefighting day gets a calendar: Jamie V. Parker asks what you actually make time to lead.
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A steady reset for ops leaders learning to listen before they solve.
This episode offers a steady reset for ops leaders who want to listen better without pretending the habit comes naturally. Jamie V. Parker stays close to the pressure of day-to-day leadership, including the quiet instinct to dismiss a speaker as a waste of time and the reflex to…
A practical delegation ladder for managers who want clarity, not slogans.
The episode treats delegation as an operations skill, not a loose leadership slogan. Jamie V. Parker lays out a planning worksheet and a five-level authority ladder, which gives listeners a clean way to separate research, recommendation, decision-making, and independent action…
A practical reminder that execution breaks when strategic priorities get buried under run-the-business work.
The episode treats complexity as the real problem: good intentions can still fail when execution gets spread across too many moving parts, too much mental load, and weak follow-through. Jamie V.
A reflective mindset conversation for ops managers and leaders who still have to get the work done.
Katie Anderson and Jamie V. Parker talk through lean mindset, growth mindset versus fixed mindset, and self-leadership for ops managers and leaders.
Stretch goals feel more useful when the episode widens the path, not just the target.
Lean Leadership for Ops Managers turns a New Year goal-setting talk into something that feels usable. Jamie V. Parker gets at the real snag early: a goal can sound doable and still leave people unsure how to start. Sarah Tilkens and Jamie V.
Execution gets sharper when strategic work is kept out of the same mental pile as everything else.
Jamie V. Parker treats execution as a question of attention, not ambition. Speaking to ops leaders, he lands on the familiar pressure of deadlines, follow-through, and staying on task when everything feels urgent.
Leader standard work comes across as a practical set of routines for busy managers to use every day.
The episode treats leader standard work as something that can help stretched teams stay engaged and keep improving. Tracy O'Rourke and Jamie Parker talk through routines that fit into real leadership work: leader gemba walks, huddle meetings, reflection, and idea boards.
A practical reset for leaders trying to move from firefighting toward more disciplined routines.
Leader-standard work is presented as a way to cut through chaos and firefighting, giving continuous improvement a steadier base. Paul Dunlop and Jamie Parker stay on the practical question: which functions belong only to a leader, and how routines can be built around those…
Tyler Selhorn interviews remote-work founders and researchers on building distributed team culture.
Adi Ignatius and Alison Beard interview scholars and executives on management and AI.
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Jamie Parker opens the episode with a practical question: how to attract and keep talented team members.
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Jamie Parker opens with a TV crossover analogy and uses it to ease into how leaders move ideas from one setting into another.
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Jamie Parker interviews leadership expert Mo Carrick about making work more human-centered.
People leadership gets messy.