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1. What is “Lean”? 52,070 views
2. Podcasts – Interviews on Lean Leadership, Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking & More 29,956 views
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4. Lean Quotes Collection 27,078 views
5. The United Flight 3411 Mess, Holding Individuals Accountable vs. Fixing the System [Updates] 26,587 views
6. Links to Dilbert Cartoons on #Lean and/or #SixSigma 25,221 views
7. Don't Threaten People with This Famous Dr. Deming Quote 20,882 views
8. Is Lean an Acronym? Is it “LEAN”? “L.E.A.N.?” 20,820 views
9. The #Lean Goals That Matter: SQDCM 19,673 views
10. A Video Showing Office 5S Gone Wrong 19,650 views
11. My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean 17,901 views
12. #Lean: Clarifying Push, Pull, and Flow in a Hospital; the Patient (the Customer) “Pulls” 16,959 views
13. Statistics on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Problems – Errors & Harm 16,094 views
14. Toyota, Respect for People (or “Humanity”) and Lean 15,482 views
15. Updated: Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories 13,785 views
16. Eight Types of Waste in Healthcare 13,045 views
17. How a Simple Office Kanban System Works at the Lean Enterprise Institute 12,978 views
18. Overcapacity and Overproduction in the Auto Industry (and Healthcare) 11,848 views
19. The Term “Lean Production” is 25 Years Old – Some Thoughts on the Original John Krafcik Article 11,083 views
20. Guest Post: What is “Yokoten?” 10,096 views
21. PDF of “Triumph of the Lean Production System” is Finally Available 9,656 views
22. Guest Post: The One Thing Lean Six Sigma Got Wrong About Lean 9,361 views
23. Picking on the PICK Chart 8,888 views
24. Fighting “We've Always Done It This Way” in Workplaces & Baseball 8,649 views
25. About Mark Graban 8,347 views
26. Podcasts 8,071 views
27. Video on a “2-Bin” Kanban System at a Pennsylvania Hospital 8,054 views
28. What Happens to Leaders Who Don't Listen? 7,885 views
29. Wise Words from Mark Twain on Continuous Improvement and Perfection 7,797 views
30. Farewell to “30 Rock” & its Six Sigma Jokes 7,534 views
31. Top 10 Amazon Healthcare Administration Books 7,147 views
32. Is it a Bad Idea to Pay a Lean Consultant Based on a Percentage of Cost Savings? 7,090 views
33. DirecTV Makes it Hard to Cancel & Move 6,995 views
34. Contact Mark Graban 6,839 views
35. Doctors Bash “Taylorism” and “Toyota Lean” in the New England Journal of Medicine 6,807 views
36. The Oscars, An Embarrassing Preventable Error, #Lean, and Process Improvement 6,798 views
37. “Standard” vs. “Standardized” Work in Lean 6,707 views
38. Origins of this Quote on “The Biggest Room in the World”? 6,555 views
39. Video of a Daily Huddle at Everett Clinic 6,542 views
40. Blog 6,496 views
41. Video: Toyota Helps a NYC Food Bank & Hurricane Sandy Victims 6,136 views
42. What's the Buzz on #Lean Certifications? [Be Sure to Read the Comments!] 6,110 views
43. Great Steve Jobs Video (& Transcript) from 1990 on Continuous Improvement 6,109 views
44. Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way 5,830 views
45. “Quality Circles” Are Alive & Well in Japanese Organizations; We Might Call it A3 Problem Solving 5,828 views
46. About LeanBlog.org 5,791 views
47. The Truth About Data and PDSA/PDCA from a Toyota Publication 5,588 views
48. Guest Post: Tool Crib Management & Its Role in Lean Manufacturing 5,443 views
49. It's Awful When the Person Teaching #Lean Doesn't Get the Bad 5S Joke 5,399 views
50. 10 Common Problem Solving Mistakes 5,272 views