Monthly Archives: January 2012
A Lean Guy Watches Moneyball
When it first came out, I was a big fan of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game about the Oakland...
Guest Post: Finding Waste at the Stadium
Mark's Note: Today's post is a guest post from a new blogger, Chad Walters. Chad and I share a strong interest in sports --...
Welcome to a New Sponsor: CreativeSafetySupply.com
I always like to give a brief shout out to new sponsors when I have them. I have a brand new sponsor, starting out...
Suggestion Boxes are Disliked & Ineffective Around the World
I love employee ideas and continuous improvement, but I really dislike suggestion boxes. As I've said, they are well intended, but the whole suggestion...
Steve Jobs as a Model Leader? As a Manufacturing Leader?
As I wrote about after his death, I am appreciative of the products and services that Steve Jobs brought to the world. That said,...
An Inc. “Best Small Company Workplace” & Their Lean Culture
As I was cleaning out a pile of stuff in my office, I found an unread issue of Inc. magazine from June 2011. One...
Kaizen Videos from a Franciscan “Kaizeneer”
My Healthcare Kaizen co-author Joe Swartz works in Indianapolis in the Franciscan St. Francis Health System. They use the term "kaizeneer" to describe those...
#Lean Blog Updates: 7 Years of Blogging, eBook & Podcasts on Stitcher
Here are a few updates about my blog and my podcasts. For one, I've now been blogging for seven years now. I'll write a...
This Commercial is Not Exactly the “Five Whys”
If you're watching college football bowls or the NFL playoffs, it's hard not to see this commercial from DirecTV. It's not exactly the reverse...
Lean in Your Life – Preventing Health Problems with Technology
Continuing this first week of the year's theme of using Lean principles to improve our lives, I'm going to write about two pieces of...
Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
While doing research for my upcoming book on "Healthcare Kaizen," I found two books that touched on kaizen-style continuous improvement in our everyday lives....
Dan Markovitz, the Author of ‘A Factory of One’ on the Personal Applications of...
Our guest for episode #135 is Dan Markovitz, author of the new book A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and...
