Here's the latest installment of “Key Tweets,” a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. I sometimes also re-share items that I've posted on LinkedIn.
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See the previous installments of Key Tweets.
From LinkedIn:
Tweets:
“While Musk has said he wants to revolutionize automotive manufacturing, Tesla has repeated mistakes made by other automakers decades ago” https://t.co/Kt0wQok129
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 1, 2018
Welcome to Twitter, @RealMikeRother. You make this a more thoughtful place just by being here. #Lean
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 5, 2018
Join me for this webinar that @jhunterstrategy is presenting on 9/24:
Webinar Signup! Putting Strategy Back in Strategy Deployment – #Lean https://t.co/vtX9SAkMGJ
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 5, 2018
“these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.” https://t.co/aGRmnZdnvI
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 5, 2018
Trump: “I've always been a leader. I've never had any problem leading people. If I say do it, they're going to do it. That's what leadership is all about.”
Except bullying leaders like this often THINK their orders are followed. But no. https://t.co/yNC7Nw34nK
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 6, 2018
“…it’s “strategically sound” for leaders to define a set of values that they and their orgs will live by because values give an org the ability to recruit, retain, and inspire staff to find waste and solve problems, which, in turn, helps the org grow.” https://t.co/NxP43NGFKS
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 6, 2018
“ the transition from star employee to manager means a transition from doer to orchestrator” https://t.co/yALVEIhTR9
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 6, 2018
"We have been calling for a Co-CEO or COO to assist to codifying the leadership structure and in so doing, the culture at Tesla," https://t.co/sMyvS4rhia
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 7, 2018
“I applied that to the community: What is the problem? What is the root cause? What is the issue?” Lozoya said. – #lean
GBIC chief talks [Toyota] background as problem solver https://t.co/CfzLcaci6S
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 10, 2018
“After seeing an image of the bacteria accumulated on his stethoscope, he admits, “I was appalled…The basic fact is that I don’t recall cleaning my stethoscope”—ever.”
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 10, 2018
So we need 3 identifiers now, not just 2… “An Arizona man was billed thousands of dollars for gallbladder surgery he never had because his name and birthdate matched another patient's” https://t.co/HhlHEWtKFd
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 11, 2018
“When the mistake is caused by a machine or an algorithm instead of a human, who is to blame?”
When the machines take over, will they look at systems and processes instead of always looking first to blame and punish an individual, as humans do?https://t.co/JRbPkqSsxN
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 11, 2018
As shared by Don Wheeler in his workshop today… this was new to me:
Dr. Seuss Explains Assessment, Metrics, Administrative Blight, and Pretty Much Every Aspect of the Contemporary Education System https://t.co/zVsvOwzQZ4 pic.twitter.com/fX6EdgL2O2
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 11, 2018
“In 1931, Walter A. Shewhart gave us the primary detection rule for use with a process behavior chart—look for an assignable cause whenever a single point falls outside the three-sigma limits." – #PlotTheDots https://t.co/Ig3wzJUQZA
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 12, 2018
“How Shohei Ohtani Visualized His Baseball Success
The Japanese two-way sensation turned to a personal-growth technique called the Harada Method to help him achieve his goals” – quoting @nbodek in the article https://t.co/qRpl13K048— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 12, 2018
Apple & Steve Job were dismissive of bigger phones, “But by 2012 the market was sending Apple a different message. People were actually complaining to Apple about the small size of the iPhone,” — listen to the "voice of the customer." https://t.co/PfQJhvGf7j
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 12, 2018
Apple's CEO Tim Cook:
“We aim to put the customer at the center of everything we do” https://t.co/6G71pNBxIw pic.twitter.com/rDWYR5Hruw— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 12, 2018
"The new Apple Watch will monitor falls and help you call for help. That’s a genuinely transformative use case for a lot of people." https://t.co/hOqZ2xPcnE
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 12, 2018
Apple Introduces Watch With Electrocardiogram Capabilities – The Wall Street Journal https://t.co/SBELxbj0Hx
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 12, 2018
10 Lean Blogs That You Should Be Reading https://t.co/VbR9G3UXUR Do you know more lean blogs that are interesting? Looking forward for your ideas…
— Cristina Hromei (@CristinaHromei) September 11, 2018
A #Lean-thinking hospital CEO (& MD) on “Why I am voting “No” on Question 1” (mandated RN:patient staffing ratios in Mass.) https://t.co/p75OKygf7e
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 12, 2018
“Toyota’s operations in Japan churn out an average of 13,000 cars a day, and the automaker is expected to have lost at least that much output through its partial shutdown"
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 13, 2018
Elon Musk: "In order to streamline manufacturing, we will be reducing our car paint ordering options from seven to five colors on Thursday."
Henry Ford: "Hold my beer and watch this… you can have any color you want, as long as it's black." STREAMLINED!
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 13, 2018
A Better Way to Visualize Hoshin Plans – a post by @danmarkovitz #Lean https://t.co/4a5DJbLEDJ
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 13, 2018
“The skeptic will say it wasn’t so much the performance of people, but factors outside their control, and they benefited from being at the right place at the right time.”
Skeptics are often correct. #Deming https://t.co/5l0wLF3bO2
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 13, 2018
Cost to produce and “the price the market will bear” are separate. A higher cost doesn’t mean you get to charge more.
How much would the iPhone cost if it were made in America? — Vox https://t.co/zAWl2Dh5rt
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 13, 2018
“Bungling hospital where man lost his penis after botched treatment is being investigated again after operating on patient's wrong testicle” https://t.co/sMXHrhx7dA
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 13, 2018
+1 Pretty much the essence of Motivational Interviewing, which I’ve been exploring since learning about it from @MarkGraban. https://t.co/kGlQW1Vjiy
— Chris R. Chapman (@DerailleurAgile) September 14, 2018
3 years ago… "Practicing #Lean:" Starting Out with Six Sigma – Lean Blog by @Kaizen_Krazy https://t.co/KSRrox8M89
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 14, 2018
“Excel is one of my top 3 favorite business applications.. It is flexible, has a ton of useful features, and it does math! What’s not to love? But for the purposes of improvement management, it is simply the wrong tool. Here’s why:” #Lean https://t.co/hSVMeZbtUO
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 14, 2018
When I see research concluding women are more effective leaders than men, it doesn't suggest that men should be tossed out the door. It does suggest that much less than half women, or a simple 50-50, is an organizational effectiveness mistake. This holds X10 among senior ranks.
— Tom Peters (@tom_peters) September 14, 2018
“Jeffrey M. Feiner, MD, alleges he faced retaliation for drawing attention to some Orlando Health physicians ordering excessive and unnecessary products from Allergan in exchange for compensation and other benefits.” https://t.co/ZlFPrznZUY
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) September 14, 2018
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.