The Playbook, an MIT LGO podcast

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Matt Vokoun - Google Apr 10, 2019

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A very exciting talk by Matt Vokoun about Google’s model of innovation. He is currently the Director of Product for the Create Hardware (Tablet and Laptop) category there and has served in various Product and Strategy roles in the past.

Domestic Plant Trek Mar 03, 2019

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Every year LGO's embark on a Domestic Plant Trek visiting manufacturing and operations sites across the country to observe large scale Operations at the world's most impressive companies. On this special episode we bring you along our 2019 Domestic Plant Trek as we hear from diverse leaders we met from along the way. Each leader will share a page from their personal playbook. Hear from leaders at Caterpillar (Denise Johnson - Group President), Johnson & Johnson (Amy Gobel - Strategy & Deployment), Raytheon (Zack Eubanks - Operations Engineer), Amazon (Brent Yoder - Director of Reliability), and Boeing (Laura Bogusch - General Manager) about how they build and run complex operations at these companies.

Dan Shockley - LFM Capital Dec 27, 2018

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Conversation with Dan Shockley who is currently the Managing Director and Partner at LFM Capital, and previously a broad-based leader of Operations at Ditch Witch, Caterpillar, and Amazon. Dan discusses his stories about building world-class Operations using the power of discipline in organizations.