Monthly Archives: March 2008
Leadership versus Management
For a long time, we have been saying that leadership is one of the top reasons that lean efforts fail. Many have begun to...
LeanBlog Podcast #39 – Jeff Liker on His Book Toyota Culture, Part 2
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #39, once again featuring Dr. Jeffrey Liker, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Liker...
Safety, Quality (Starts), Delivery (to the Plate), and Coaches
Coaches grousing over mandatory helmets : Rockies : The Rocky Mountain NewsHappy Opening Day to baseball fans out there. I grew up a huge...
Lean or ‘L.A.M.E.’ in a Hospital?
To build a better hospital, Virginia Mason takes lessons from Toyota plantsA number of you emailed me about the above article that was featured...
Linkedin.com Lean Networking
I don't know how many of you are LinkedIn users, but I've found it to be a very helpful and professional networking tool. If...
A Bright Green Future: Applying Lean to the Whole Planet
By Jason Turgeon:In my first post a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the tension between what I called "new" and "old" environmentalism....
This UPS Ad Has it Backwards
Time to pick on UPS again (see the "UPS" link at the bottom of the post)... Has anyone else seen the UPS "whiteboard" ad...
A True Story, Best I Can Tell
I know this sounds like the stuff of urban legend, but I had someone tell me this story today, someone with no real interest...
Cleaning Out the LeanBlog Backlog – March 27
Sometimes, I have a collection of news stories or links that I either don't have time to blog about, assume you don't have time...
Dennis Quaid on 60 Minutes
Dennis Quaid Recounts Twins' Drug Ordeal, Actor Tells 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Medical Errors Kill Thousands - CBS News
Did you see the actor Dennis...
Kaizen and Theory of Constraints
I got a question from a reader and Theory of Constraints fan:
"One of the topics that I'm struggling...
WWTD? Think!
I heard an interesting quote a while back (and I can't remember the source!). The speaker said something to the effect of:"The more we...
