Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Manufacturing | Lean Office | Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership

Most organizations have a strategy. Far fewer can actually execute one. Michael Caito built and sold a food delivery business decades before DoorDash existed, then spent years helping other companies close the gap between where leaders want to go and where they actually end up. His diagnosis is consistent: the gap is almost always an accountability problem, and accountability is almost always the leader’s problem first. The conversation with Ron covers what CEOs truly own, how to know whether you have a strategy issue or an execution issue, and why the cadence of your team meetings matters more than most leaders want to admit. In this episode you’ll learn: How focusing on what is vital applies the Pareto principle to business (2:24) Why the strategy-execution gap exists in most organizations (9:29) What five things a CEO truly owns in any business (10:55) When to make a people change and how to know you have waited too long (13:34) How an operating rhythm makes performance visible across the org