Tag: USA Today

Goodbye Dr. House, Hello “Respect for People”

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Dr. Robert Wachter has a great column in today's USA Today: "Column: Gregory House M.D.: RIP" and it's republished on his blog, with its...

Yes, We Need Staff Ideas – But, How to Manage Those...

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It's always great to see stories in the major media outlets about engaging front-line staff in improvement ideas. Recently, we had a piece in...

Lean, Value & Waste: Better to be Creative than to Cheat...

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I saw this article last week in the USA Today while traveling, with the online headline "Products nipped, tucked to save." That headline makes...

A Lean Guy Reads USA Today – NBA Unis and Teacher...

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It's time for a Lean Blog feature I haven't done in a while.... "A Lean Guy Reads _______". I've done this before with the...

A Lean Urban Legend/Myth Busted about Toyoda and Toyota Names?

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Last month, in the midst of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda's appearance in front of Congress, there was a little sidebar in the USA Today...

USA Today Features Lean in Hospitals

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Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs - USATODAY.com It's nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare....

Japanese CEOs and Leadership

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Toyota Posts Big Loss, Signals More to Come - WSJ.comI saw this article on Saturday and it reminded me to go ahead and blog...

Japan’s CEO Aren’t Greedy Villains

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In Japan, more CEOs share the pain of tough times - USATODAY.comThe USA Today, whether they're trying or not, is doing a good job...

Nice Toyota "Root Cause" Problem Solving Example in USA Today

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The other 'Big 3': Japanese car giants caught in sales skid, too - USATODAY.comIt was Kaizen Week in the paper, apparently, as the word...

Ford Not "Blindly Copying" Toyota – They Ignore "Respect for People"??

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Ford CEO Mulally shares Toyota's vision -- Article from USATODAY.com Why does the USA TODAY tend to do a better job with Lean articles than...

Following up on the Peanut Corporation… Snap, Crackle, Salmonella?

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Following up on these two earlier posts (here and here)... I'll quit calling them the "Idiot Corporation of America" since the Peanut Corporation of...

Report: Toyota’s First Layoffs Since 1950??

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Report: Toyota considers cutting 1,000 jobs - USATODAY.com With the down economy, there had been much discussion about whether Toyota could continue it's "no layoffs...