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Posts With the Most Comments:

  1. The One Where John Seddon Inaccurately Criticizes Jim Womack & Dan Jones 171 comments | 4.2k views
  2. Get Inspired: A Collection of the Best Lean Quotes to Energize Your Journey 109 comments | 30.7k views
  3. Who is Visiting? Have any feedback on this Blog? 100 comments | 786 views
  4. What's the Buzz on #Lean Certifications? [Be Sure to Read the Comments!] 91 comments | 6.7k views
  5. Announcing a New Book, “Practicing Lean” 89 comments | 1.2k views
  6. Lean Blog Audio Podcast 68 comments | 6.6k views
  7. The One Thing Lean Six Sigma Got Wrong About Lean? 64 comments | 11.7k views
  8. Doctors vs. Taylorism and Toyota Lean: Exploring the Controversial Debate in the New England Journal of Medicin 61 comments | 9.5k views
  9. Behind the Numbers: A Startling Look at Healthcare Quality, Patient Safety, and the Urgent Need for Change 60 comments | 18.7k views
  10. 10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn't Say in 2010 60 comments | 4.9k views
  11. Lean or “L.A.M.E.”? 57 comments | 7.2k views
  12. Hospital Workers, Flu Shots & Standardized Work 53 comments | 3.2k views
  13. Toyota's Respect for People Principle: The Heart of Lean Thinking and Practice 53 comments | 26.3k views
  14. Is it a Bad Idea to Pay a Lean Consultant Based on a Percentage of Cost Savings? 50 comments | 9k views
  15. When 5S Goes Wrong: A Hilarious (and Cringe-worthy) Office Fiasco Caught on Video, Sort Of 46 comments | 29.5k views
  16. Reader Question: Short Definition of Lean? 45 comments | 1.5k views
  17. Guest Post – Words Matter: Why I Prefer PDSA over PDCA 42 comments | 1.8k views
  18. What Are Barriers to “Kaizen” in Healthcare? 41 comments | 2.1k views
  19. Podcast #125 – Mike George on Lean Six Sigma for Government & Politicians 40 comments | 1.4k views
  20. My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean 39 comments | 21.8k views
  21. Dear “Lean Six Sigma” Crowd – Lean is About Quality, Too 38 comments | 2.1k views
  22. Don't Threaten People with This Famous Dr. Deming Quote on Change and Survival 37 comments | 31.2k views
  23. Negligent People or a Bad System Leading to Surgical Errors? 37 comments | 1k views
  24. The United Flight 3411 Mess, Holding Individuals Accountable vs. Fixing the System [Updates] 37 comments | 27.3k views
  25. Is a “Rude” Customer Still Right, at Starbucks or any Setting? 34 comments | 1.5k views
  26. Are We 84.7% Certain We're in the 90th Percentile? 34 comments | 871 views
  27. “The speed and flexibility is breathtaking” – But in a good way? 34 comments | 1.3k views
  28. Why You Shouldn't Call Yourself “Sensei” Or Make Others Call You That 34 comments | 6.8k views
  29. Contact Mark Graban 33 comments | 6.8k views
  30. Warning: You Can't Even Draw a Map with this “Value Stream Mapper” App 33 comments | 566 views
  31. Video on a “2-Bin” Kanban System at a Pennsylvania Hospital 33 comments | 10.8k views
  32. Bad Lean / 5S Hits the UK Media 32 comments | 5.4k views
  33. What's Wrong With This Hospital's Lean Job Posting? 32 comments | 400 views
  34. An Error Proofing Challenge 31 comments | 639 views
  35. It's Harder to Tolerate Waste “When You Know What Good Looks Like…” 31 comments | 231 views
  36. April Fool: A New Way to Learn Lean? Wii Lean! 30 comments | 4.1k views
  37. How to Design Poor Service – Expect 100% Utilization of People or Resources 30 comments | 2.2k views
  38. The Invisible Waste in Healthcare Leads to Visible Harm to Patients 30 comments | 537 views
  39. The Newtown Tragedy – Our National Response and Problem Solving 30 comments | 191 views
  40. This WSJ Article (as do Many Organizations) Misses the Point of 5S 29 comments | 2.9k views
  41. “Lean Won't Work Here… We're Different!” Is That Really True? 29 comments | 1.2k views
  42. (Complaining About) Resistance is Futile 29 comments | 672 views
  43. 10 Common Problem Solving Mistakes 29 comments | 11.6k views
  44. Where Do Hospitals Get the Idea that Lean is Only About Cost Reduction? 29 comments | 4.1k views
  45. Toyota as a “People Development Company” 29 comments | 4.5k views
  46. Time & Motion Studies Are Not “Discredited,” Just How They Are Used 28 comments | 6.6k views
  47. A Whiteboard Accident Waiting to Happen – How to Error Proof? 28 comments | 7.2k views
  48. GM Blames Layoffs on the Japan Earthquake and JIT; Should Instead Look in Mirror 27 comments | 1.5k views
  49. Does Setting a Goal for Number of Kaizens Violate “Kaizen Spirit”? 27 comments | 2.2k views
  50. NUMMI Tour Tale #1: Why Fix the Escalator? 26 comments | 484 views

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