{"id":36615,"date":"2024-04-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/?p=36615"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:49:49","slug":"teaching-lean-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/teaching-lean-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Lean Thinking to Kids: A Conversation with Alan Goodman\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of the WLEI podcast, LEI speaks with Alan Goodman, professor and department chair of quality engineering at Milwaukee Area Technical College.&nbsp;Alan spent his career in operations at GE before becoming a professor. 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