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1. What is "Lean"? 55,112 views
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4. Lean Quotes Collection 28,781 views
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6. The United Flight 3411 Mess, Holding Individuals Accountable vs. Fixing the System [Updates] 26,819 views
7. Is Lean an Acronym? Is it "LEAN"? "L.E.A.N.?" 24,954 views
8. The #Lean Goals That Matter: SQDCM 24,530 views
9. Don't Threaten People with This Famous Dr. Deming Quote 23,229 views
10. A Video Showing Office 5S Gone Wrong 23,056 views
11. #Lean: Clarifying Push, Pull, and Flow in a Hospital; the Patient (the Customer) "Pulls" 19,548 views
12. My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean 19,314 views
13. Toyota, Respect for People (or "Humanity") and Lean 17,697 views
14. Statistics on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Problems - Errors & Harm 17,304 views
15. Eight Types of Waste in Healthcare 16,982 views
16. Updated: Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories 15,120 views
17. How a Simple Office Kanban System Works at the Lean Enterprise Institute 13,720 views
18. Guest Post: What is "Yokoten?" 13,601 views
19. Overcapacity and Overproduction in the Auto Industry (and Healthcare) 13,469 views
20. The Term "Lean Production" is 25 Years Old - Some Thoughts on the Original John Krafcik Article 12,565 views
21. PDF of "Triumph of the Lean Production System" is Finally Available 11,607 views
22. Picking on the PICK Chart 10,809 views
23. What Happens to Leaders Who Don't Listen? 10,354 views
24. Guest Post: The One Thing Lean Six Sigma Got Wrong About Lean 9,905 views
25. Wise Words from Mark Twain on Continuous Improvement and Perfection 9,824 views
26. Fighting "We've Always Done It This Way" in Workplaces & Baseball 9,712 views
27. Podcasts 9,582 views
28. About Mark Graban 9,291 views
29. Free Download: Process Tracking Letters for Lean Daily Management Boards 8,859 views
30. Video on a "2-Bin" Kanban System at a Pennsylvania Hospital 8,842 views
31. Farewell to "30 Rock" & its Six Sigma Jokes 8,583 views
32. "Standard" vs. "Standardized" Work in Lean 7,861 views
33. Origins of this Quote on "The Biggest Room in the World"? 7,794 views
34. Is it a Bad Idea to Pay a Lean Consultant Based on a Percentage of Cost Savings? 7,766 views
35. Top 10 Amazon Healthcare Administration Books 7,751 views
36. A Toyota Leader on Misunderstandings About the Toyota Production System 7,580 views
37. Video of a Daily Huddle at Everett Clinic 7,465 views
38. Video: Toyota Helps a NYC Food Bank & Hurricane Sandy Victims 7,313 views
39. Doctors Bash "Taylorism" and "Toyota Lean" in the New England Journal of Medicine 7,261 views
40. DirecTV Makes it Hard to Cancel & Move 7,118 views
41. Blog 7,011 views
42. Lean Comedy 6,945 views
43. "Quality Circles" Are Alive & Well in Japanese Organizations; We Might Call it A3 Problem Solving 6,922 views
44. The Oscars, An Embarrassing Preventable Error, #Lean, and Process Improvement 6,879 views
45. Great Steve Jobs Video (& Transcript) from 1990 on Continuous Improvement 6,870 views
46. Contact Mark Graban 6,847 views
47. Guest Post: Tool Crib Management & Its Role in Lean Manufacturing 6,580 views
48. About LeanBlog.org 6,485 views
49. Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way 6,469 views
50. 10 Common Problem Solving Mistakes 6,461 views