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What I’m Reading: Paul Levy’s Blog

Mark Graban Dec 11, 2012 0
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I sometimes do a "What I'm Reading" post where I share links to good stuff I've read recently. Today, I'm…

Notes from #IHI09 Day 2: Paul Levy

Mark Graban Dec 16, 2009 3
Blog
Paul Levy on Transparency, Social Media, and Quality Following up and continuing this morning's post about…

New Book by @PaulFLevy – “Goal Play!” with Lessons for…

Mark Graban Jun 28, 2012 4
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Paul Levy, the former CEO of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is a long time friend of mine and this…

Crystal Davis on Courageous Leadership and Pandemic Supply Chains

Mark Graban Mar 1, 2022 0
Interviews
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #442 of the Lean Blog…

How Does a Loving & Caring Organization Get Accused of Treating People This…

Mark Graban Nov 21, 2019 0
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is the oldest children's hospitals in the United States. I don't think…

#Lean Enterprise Institute Announces New CEO

Mark Graban Oct 2, 2017 1
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The Lean Enterprise Institute (a former employer of mine from 2009 to 2011) has announced a new CEO, the third in…

What’s Up at Virginia Mason Medical Center? Top Rankings & Joint…

Mark Graban Aug 4, 2016 21
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I want to preface this post by saying it's mostly about questions, not answers. I've had many readers and…

Throwback Thursday: HBR on Taylorism vs Toyota

Mark Graban Jan 21, 2016 6
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In the midst of the discussion about the NEJM article, John Shook of LEI (a former Toyota employee) pointed me to…

Doctors Bash “Taylorism” and “Toyota Lean” in the New…

Mark Graban Jan 13, 2016 61
Blog
In the article posted today, Pamela Hartzband, M.D., and Jerome Groopman, M.D. (the later the author of the popular…

Dr. Don Berwick is “Stunned” By How Few Organizations Study Deming

Mark Graban Jan 7, 2016 11
Audio
One of the first people in healthcare to be influenced by Deming’s work is Dr. Don Berwick, founder of the…

Fear of speaking up is a broader problem, not just in military medicine

Mark Graban Jan 13, 2015 5
Audio
Announcement: Dr. Greg Jacobson and I are doing a new webinar for KaiNexus on "More Leadership Behaviors That…

Read What This Hospital CEO Says on His Blog About Lean and Kaizen

Mark Graban Aug 13, 2014 1
Blog
Hospital CEOs are busy people, to say the least, but a big part of their leadership role includes communication…

My Thoughts on “10 Ideas That Hospital and Health System CEOs Need to…

Mark Graban Jun 25, 2014 1
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I saw this piece by Bob Herman at Becker's Hospital Review and ended up writing a blog post here instead of writing…

A Few Recent Articles by (and a Podcast with) Mark Graban: Lean Healthcare,…

Mark Graban May 28, 2014 3
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Here are a few articles (and a podcast) that I either wrote and had published recently or was interviewed for.…

Lean Thinking: We Don’t Blame Individuals for Systemic Errors

Mark Graban Mar 24, 2014 8
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I saw this video last night on Paul Levy's blog and it's important enough that I want to share it here with a few…

Is it Lean’s Fault or the Old Management System’s?

Mark Graban Mar 17, 2014 18
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It's easy for an organization to say they are "doing Lean" or they have "started a Lean transformation." They might…

Weekend Fun: Lean in a British Hospital Soap Opera

Mark Graban Feb 9, 2014 3
Blog
Hat tip to Paul Levy for sharing this video originally in his blog post. Here is the video (you just have to…

A Health System CEO, Gary Passama, Blogs About Lean

Mark Graban Oct 23, 2013 2
Blog
It's great to see CEOs blogging and sharing transparently on the web, sharing their views, stories, and opinions.…
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