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Posts With the Most Comments:

  1. The One Where John Seddon Inaccurately Criticizes Jim Womack 170 comments | 3,580 views
  2. Lean Quotes Collection 109 comments | 28,203 views
  3. Who is Visiting? Have any feedback on this Blog? 100 comments | 747 views
  4. What's the Buzz on #Lean Certifications? [Be Sure to Read the Comments!] 91 comments | 6,296 views
  5. Lean Blog Audio Podcast 68 comments | 3,741 views
  6. Doctors Bash “Taylorism” and “Toyota Lean” in the New England Journal of Medicine 61 comments | 7,095 views
  7. 10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn't Say in 2010 60 comments | 3,846 views
  8. Statistics on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Problems – Errors & Harm 58 comments | 16,854 views
  9. Updating “Lean Hospitals” and a New eBook, “Practicing Lean” 55 comments | 649 views
  10. Lean or “L.A.M.E.”? 55 comments | 5,407 views
  11. Guest Post: The One Thing Lean Six Sigma Got Wrong About Lean 53 comments | 9,709 views
  12. Hospital Workers, Flu Shots & Standardized Work 53 comments | 2,756 views
  13. Is it a Bad Idea to Pay a Lean Consultant Based on a Percentage of Cost Savings? 50 comments | 7,552 views
  14. A Video Showing Office 5S Gone Wrong 46 comments | 21,871 views
  15. Toyota, Respect for People (or “Humanity”) and Lean 46 comments | 16,815 views
  16. Reader Question: Short Definition of Lean? 45 comments | 1,147 views
  17. Guest Post – Words Matter: Why I Prefer PDSA over PDCA 42 comments | 1,435 views
  18. What Are Barriers to “Kaizen” in Healthcare? 41 comments | 1,282 views
  19. Podcast #125 – Mike George on Lean Six Sigma for Government & Politicians 39 comments | 1,141 views
  20. Dear “Lean Six Sigma” Crowd – Lean is About Quality, Too 38 comments | 1,823 views
  21. Negligent People or a Bad System Leading to Surgical Errors? 37 comments | 837 views
  22. The United Flight 3411 Mess, Holding Individuals Accountable vs. Fixing the System [Updates] 37 comments | 26,745 views
  23. My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean 36 comments | 18,810 views
  24. Don't Threaten People with This Famous Dr. Deming Quote 35 comments | 22,513 views
  25. “The speed and flexibility is breathtaking” – But in a good way? 34 comments | 581 views
  26. Are We 84.7% Certain We're in the 90th Percentile? 34 comments | 712 views
  27. Is a “Rude” Customer Still Right, at Starbucks or any Setting? 34 comments | 1,074 views
  28. Why You Shouldn't Call Yourself “Sensei” Or Make Others Call You That 34 comments | 2,774 views
  29. Contact Mark Graban 33 comments | 6,846 views
  30. Warning: You Can't Even Draw a Map with this “Value Stream Mapper” App 33 comments | 451 views
  31. Video on a “2-Bin” Kanban System at a Pennsylvania Hospital 33 comments | 8,483 views
  32. Bad Lean / 5S Hits the UK Media 32 comments | 4,004 views
  33. What's Wrong With This Hospital's Lean Job Posting? 32 comments | 286 views
  34. It's Harder to Tolerate Waste “When You Know What Good Looks Like…” 31 comments | 211 views
  35. An Error Proofing Challenge 31 comments | 406 views
  36. The Newtown Tragedy – Our National Response and Problem Solving 30 comments | 180 views
  37. April Fool: A New Way to Learn Lean? Wii Lean! 30 comments | 3,426 views
  38. The Invisible Waste in Healthcare Leads to Visible Harm to Patients 30 comments | 306 views
  39. How to Design Poor Service – Expect 100% Utilization of People or Resources 30 comments | 1,823 views
  40. (Complaining About) Resistance is Futile 29 comments | 660 views
  41. Where Do Hospitals Get the Idea that Lean is Only About Cost Reduction? 29 comments | 2,808 views
  42. Toyota as a “People Development Company” 29 comments | 1,478 views
  43. 10 Common Problem Solving Mistakes 29 comments | 5,966 views
  44. This WSJ Article (as do Many Organizations) Misses the Point of 5S 29 comments | 2,298 views
  45. “Lean Won't Work Here… We're Different” 29 comments | 667 views
  46. A Whiteboard Accident Waiting to Happen – How to Error Proof? 28 comments | 5,517 views
  47. Time & Motion Studies Are Not “Discredited,” Just How They Are Used 28 comments | 4,985 views
  48. GM Blames Layoffs on the Japan Earthquake and JIT; Should Instead Look in Mirror 27 comments | 1,091 views
  49. Does Setting a Goal for Number of Kaizens Violate “Kaizen Spirit”? 27 comments | 1,509 views
  50. On Amazon, Publishers, and Book Prices 26 comments | 1,122 views