Wherever You Ask The Question, That’s Where The Answer Should Be | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business —and life —one improvement at a time.

In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "Wherever You Ask The Question, That's Where The Answer Should Be!"

Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about:

How Center Parcs, McDonald's, and Amazon have used this principle to scale Why reducing the cognitive load of your team turbocharges your business Practical examples from Ryan's personal and professional life Analyzing if your organization is doing this well by using the "sentence-stop-test" What impact this concept has made on Ryan's business, team, and customers The power of providing answers before questions are even asked And some improvements from Ryan’s 7-year-old son to inspire you to get started today

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Welcome to Lean Made Simple: a podcast for people who want to change their business and their lives one step at a time. I’m Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters, a manufacturing company from Limavady, Northern Ireland. Eight years ago I came across this thing called lean and it transformed my life and now I want to share this message with as many people as possible.

• No. of episodes: 48
• Latest episode: 2025-07-21
• Business Management

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