INVISTA
INVISTA is a chemical company that produces chemicals, polymers, and fibers, such as nylon, used in products across industries including apparel, automotive, packaging, and healthcare.www.invista.com
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Oct 6, 2026
What 12 Leaders Taught Me About Transformation
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16:32Damon BakerHOST
But if the president still runs the company through firefighting, anecdotes, financial outputs, and whoever speaks the loudest in the meeting, the organization knows which system is real.
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16:45Damon BakerHOST
Brian Hu at Invista gave us another side of this.
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16:48Damon BakerHOST
Invista didn't need to discover Lean.
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16:50Damon BakerHOST
It came out of Danaher.
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16:52Damon BakerHOST
The knowledge existed.
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36:21Damon BakerHOST
And that's why value streams are so powerful.
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36:22Damon BakerHOST
They force us to see horizontally in an organization that's been designed vertically.
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36:27Damon BakerHOST
Brian's work with the Invista business system reinforces that as well.
Jonathan Armstrong
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25:56Jonathan ArmstrongGUEST
But the bits of unfortunate slash fortune was that he just started a corporate transaction to sell the business.
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26:08Jonathan ArmstrongGUEST
that became Invista, so the Lycra business.
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26:13Jonathan ArmstrongGUEST
And so I stepped in to do the technology bits, and then the compliance bits, and then some of the M&A bits of that.
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26:25Jonathan ArmstrongGUEST
And a lot of DuPont's systems had been set up.
Grant Johnson, Founder Chatterbox
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24:45Grant JohnsonGUEST
Yeah, well, one thing, too, is it's such a big company, too.
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24:48Grant JohnsonGUEST
So in the opportunities that come through with the subsidiary that I work in, Invista, then I think a lot of times they're pointing towards me.
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24:55Grant JohnsonGUEST
But there's so many different people around that I think they have quite a few in other spaces as well.
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25:02Grant JohnsonGUEST
Indeed, especially I would think in Spanish,