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1. The One Where John Seddon Inaccurately Criticizes Jim Womack 170 comments | 3,526 views
2. Lean Quotes Collection 109 comments | 27,853 views
3. Who is Visiting? Have any feedback on this Blog? 100 comments | 735 views
4. What's the Buzz on #Lean Certifications? [Be Sure to Read the Comments!] 91 comments | 6,247 views
5. Lean Blog Audio Podcast 68 comments | 3,535 views
6. Doctors Bash “Taylorism” and “Toyota Lean” in the New England Journal of Medicine 61 comments | 7,015 views
7. 10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn't Say in 2010 60 comments | 3,799 views
8. Statistics on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Problems – Errors & Harm 58 comments | 16,568 views
9. Lean or “L.A.M.E.”? 55 comments | 5,280 views
10. Guest Post: The One Thing Lean Six Sigma Got Wrong About Lean 53 comments | 9,567 views
11. Updating “Lean Hospitals” and a New eBook, “Practicing Lean” 53 comments | 619 views
12. Hospital Workers, Flu Shots & Standardized Work 53 comments | 2,718 views
13. Is it a Bad Idea to Pay a Lean Consultant Based on a Percentage of Cost Savings? 50 comments | 7,405 views
14. A Video Showing Office 5S Gone Wrong 46 comments | 21,016 views
15. Toyota, Respect for People (or “Humanity”) and Lean 46 comments | 16,393 views
16. Reader Question: Short Definition of Lean? 45 comments | 1,116 views
17. Guest Post – Words Matter: Why I Prefer PDSA over PDCA 42 comments | 1,396 views
18. What Are Barriers to “Kaizen” in Healthcare? 41 comments | 1,247 views
19. Podcast #125 – Mike George on Lean Six Sigma for Government & Politicians 39 comments | 1,121 views
20. Dear “Lean Six Sigma” Crowd – Lean is About Quality, Too 38 comments | 1,804 views
21. Negligent People or a Bad System Leading to Surgical Errors? 37 comments | 824 views
22. The United Flight 3411 Mess, Holding Individuals Accountable vs. Fixing the System [Updates] 37 comments | 26,676 views
23. My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean 36 comments | 18,528 views
24. Don't Threaten People with This Famous Dr. Deming Quote 35 comments | 22,056 views
25. “The speed and flexibility is breathtaking” – But in a good way? 34 comments | 563 views
26. Are We 84.7% Certain We're in the 90th Percentile? 34 comments | 692 views
27. Is a “Rude” Customer Still Right, at Starbucks or any Setting? 34 comments | 1,054 views
28. Why You Shouldn't Call Yourself “Sensei” Or Make Others Call You That 34 comments | 2,649 views
29. Contact Mark Graban 33 comments | 6,840 views
30. Warning: You Can't Even Draw a Map with this “Value Stream Mapper” App 33 comments | 445 views
31. Video on a “2-Bin” Kanban System at a Pennsylvania Hospital 33 comments | 8,291 views
32. Bad Lean / 5S Hits the UK Media 32 comments | 3,903 views
33. What's Wrong With This Hospital's Lean Job Posting? 32 comments | 280 views
34. It's Harder to Tolerate Waste “When You Know What Good Looks Like…” 31 comments | 208 views
35. An Error Proofing Challenge 31 comments | 395 views
36. The Newtown Tragedy – Our National Response and Problem Solving 30 comments | 178 views
37. April Fool: A New Way to Learn Lean? Wii Lean! 30 comments | 3,370 views
38. The Invisible Waste in Healthcare Leads to Visible Harm to Patients 30 comments | 302 views
39. How to Design Poor Service – Expect 100% Utilization of People or Resources 30 comments | 1,802 views
40. (Complaining About) Resistance is Futile 29 comments | 657 views
41. Where Do Hospitals Get the Idea that Lean is Only About Cost Reduction? 29 comments | 2,771 views
42. Toyota as a “People Development Company” 29 comments | 1,342 views
43. 10 Common Problem Solving Mistakes 29 comments | 5,802 views
44. This WSJ Article (as do Many Organizations) Misses the Point of 5S 29 comments | 2,199 views
45. “Lean Won't Work Here… We're Different” 29 comments | 661 views
46. A Whiteboard Accident Waiting to Happen – How to Error Proof? 28 comments | 5,360 views
47. Time & Motion Studies Are Not “Discredited,” Just How They Are Used 28 comments | 4,894 views
48. GM Blames Layoffs on the Japan Earthquake and JIT; Should Instead Look in Mirror 27 comments | 1,052 views
49. Does Setting a Goal for Number of Kaizens Violate “Kaizen Spirit”? 27 comments | 1,458 views
50. On Amazon, Publishers, and Book Prices 26 comments | 1,104 views