It's the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow here in the U.S., so I'm going to take a few days away from the blog with family.
Hope you have a good week… feel free to check out the archives of the blog (or search using the box in the upper right) or the podcasts if you're new to the blog and looking for stuff to read or listen to…
I'm adding links to other Thanksgiving posts in the comments section, below.
photo credit: Sugar Daze (f/k/a LittleMissCupcakeParis)
Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker who has worked in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups. His latest book is Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More. He is author of the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, as well as The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen. He also published the anthology Practicing Lean that benefits the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation, where Mark is a board member. Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Some other Thanksgiving themed posts:
From Bryan Ziegler at the “Lean is Good” blog – good reflective questions for this time of year:
http://leanisgood.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/happy-thanksgiving-be-thankful-for-lean/
And from Paul Levy’s “Running a Hospital” blog, a post about important end-of-life planning discussions that a number of bloggers are writing about as families gather:
http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2010/11/things-we-are-grateful-for-this-year.html
From Healthcare Performance Partners, reflections on the season:
https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:2453.8844350604/rid:c22f2f53c503b36ebb6075db11a39b09
Thanksgiving thoughts from Eric Ries:
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/11/why-do-we-do-this.html
And from Healthcare Performance Partners:
http://www.leanhealthcareexchange.com/?p=1031