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3. You'll Love These Idea Boards Spotted at the Society for Health Systems Conference 34.2k views
4. Is Lean an Acronym? Is it “LEAN”? “L.E.A.N.?” 31k views
5. Lean Quotes Collection 30.1k views
6. The #Lean Goals That Matter: SQDCM 29.2k views
7. Links to Dilbert Cartoons on #Lean and/or #SixSigma 28.3k views
8. Don't Threaten People with This Famous Dr. Deming Quote 27.1k views
9. The United Flight 3411 Mess, Holding Individuals Accountable vs. Fixing the System [Updates] 27k views
10. A Video Showing Office 5S Gone Wrong 26.7k views
11. #Lean: Clarifying Push, Pull, and Flow in a Hospital; the Patient (the Customer) “Pulls” 23.5k views
12. Eight Types of Waste in Healthcare 22k views
13. Toyota, Respect for People (or “Humanity”) and Lean 21.1k views
14. My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean 20.7k views
15. Statistics on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Problems – Errors & Harm 17.9k views
16. Free Download: Process Tracking Letters for Lean Daily Management Boards 17.8k views
17. Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories 16.8k views
18. Guest Post: What is “Yokoten?” 16.6k views
19. Overcapacity and Overproduction in the Auto Industry (and Healthcare) 15.9k views
20. The Term “Lean Production” is 25 Years Old – Some Thoughts on the Original John Krafcik Article 14.6k views
21. How a Simple Office Kanban System Works at the Lean Enterprise Institute 14.3k views
22. PDF of “Triumph of the Lean Production System” is Finally Available 13.6k views
23. Wise Words from Mark Twain on Continuous Improvement and Perfection 13k views
24. Picking on the PICK Chart 12.5k views
25. What Happens to Leaders Who Don't Listen? 12.3k views
26. Podcasts 10.7k views
27. The One Thing Lean Six Sigma Got Wrong About Lean? 10.6k views
28. Fighting “We've Always Done It This Way” in Workplaces & Baseball 10.5k views
29. Farewell to “30 Rock” & its Six Sigma Jokes 10.2k views
30. Origins of this Quote on “The Biggest Room in the World”? 10.1k views
31. About Mark Graban 9.7k views
32. Video on a “2-Bin” Kanban System at a Pennsylvania Hospital 9.6k views
33. “Standard” vs. “Standardized” Work in Lean 8.7k views
34. A Toyota Leader on Misunderstandings About the Toyota Production System 8.5k views
35. Lean Comedy 8.5k views
36. Is it a Bad Idea to Pay a Lean Consultant Based on a Percentage of Cost Savings? 8.5k views
37. Video of a Daily Huddle at Everett Clinic 8.3k views
38. Top 10 Amazon Healthcare Administration Books 8.2k views
39. 10 Common Problem Solving Mistakes 8.1k views
40. Tool Crib Management & Its Role in Lean Manufacturing 8.1k views
41. Doctors Bash “Taylorism” and “Toyota Lean” in the New England Journal of Medicine 8.1k views
42. Video: Toyota Helps a NYC Food Bank & Hurricane Sandy Victims 8k views
43. “Quality Circles” Are Alive & Well in Japanese Organizations; We Might Call it A3 Problem Solving 7.9k views
44. Blog 7.9k views
45. Toyota is Admired for Good Reason… But About Those Rotating Job Shifts… 7.7k views
46. Great Steve Jobs Video (& Transcript) from 1990 on Continuous Improvement 7.6k views
47. About LeanBlog.org 7.6k views
48. DirecTV Makes it Hard to Cancel & Move 7.2k views
49. Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way 7.1k views
50. The Oscars, An Embarrassing Preventable Error, #Lean, and Process Improvement 7k views