Key Tweets from @MarkGraban – Week of January 4, 2016: VW, Mark Twain, Patient Safety Goals

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You might call what your org is doing "Lean" but if you're only focused on cost reduction, it's not really #Lean

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 7, 2016

People who spell #Lean as LEAN… Maybe I will try to popularize spelling it as "LEAN!!!!!" through my writing. #NotAnAcronym

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 7, 2016

2016 #patientsafety goals posted. Same as previous years. When will we accomplish such goals??? Have posters helped? pic.twitter.com/oEcPajwOFI

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 7, 2016

This was a big problem at my GM plant 20 years ago, not wanting to slow production to solve quality problems https://t.co/qcCPKg5UjR

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 4, 2016

1970s GM: “Why not ask the workers themselves to get involved in the [new layout]?” https://t.co/ZgwBeuVSMm #Lean #LeanDesign

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 4, 2016

Reminds me of #Lean – 1974, GM & UAW were frustrated about slow culture change (from HBR article) pic.twitter.com/edgeb9iRgm

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 5, 2016

HBR 1979: “Workers will not be willing to become involved knowing mgmt lacks competence to do anything about ideas.” https://t.co/ZgwBeuVSMm

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 5, 2016

@GembaAcademy is at Franciscan St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis today filming another Gemba Academy Live! pic.twitter.com/aFSupTSkBu

— Gemba Academy (@GembaAcademy) January 5, 2016

#Lean is a management system. There's not much of a market for people who want a new management system.

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 5, 2016

Since the article didn't do the math, that's $22.5 billion in fines if imposed on VW. pic.twitter.com/XpPJfNNCkU

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 5, 2016

Read & commented: Zero Defects Is Not An Unreasonable Ambition https://t.co/o4JyYrXA8M #Lean #Deming via @dumontis

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 5, 2016

Hospital CEO tells board they have to stop paying illegal referrals, gets fired, hospital has to pay Feds $9.8M https://t.co/3DYgL6WgW1

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 6, 2016

“t would make it impossible to work in the medical system if manslaughter charges can be pressed for mistakes.” https://t.co/b5AkPhraXx

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 6, 2016

The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need. — Masaaki Imai #hospitals #SNFS #lean #healthcare #improvement

— Antonio Stewart (@AntonioStewarts) January 6, 2016

If Japan Can Why Can't We https://t.co/WGPv7giwEj via @YouTube HT @MarkGraban pic.twitter.com/sWESPj3K8T

— Greg Ilkka (@gilkka) January 6, 2016

The Neglected Aspect of #Lean: Practical Problem Solving – sign up for webinar: https://t.co/jDfOpDuafe

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 6, 2016

#Lean: “This 75,000-visits-per-year ER essentially has no patient waiting." – only 9 chairs in the ED waiting https://t.co/T3tknQHq4D

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 6, 2016

Being a #Lean thinker means fighting the human urge to be blaming & judgmental. Myself included.

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 6, 2016

Using #Lean to improve patient safety & quality >>>>>> Mistaking Lean for a cost cutting only strategy

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 7, 2016

#Meetings are the few times you have all the brain power in one room.

Don't waste it on a status update.

Use that time to work together.

— Melissa Perri (@lissijean) January 7, 2016

Wise words from Mark Twain — #Lean #Kaizen pic.twitter.com/EOBWnbzcUb

— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 8, 2016

That's it!