Most Popular Pages Since 2005
Looking for a useful place to start? These are Lean Blog’s most-viewed posts and pages, covering Lean management, leadership, healthcare improvement, and learning from mistakes.
The list updates automatically using recorded page views. Older articles have had more time to accumulate readers, so the rankings reflect popularity over time. For a more focused starting point, explore my selected Best Articles.
Start here: five useful starting points
If you’re new to Lean Blog, I’d start with the question closest to your work:
- What is Lean? Start with the management approach.
Explore Lean thinking beyond the tools, including how leaders support problem-solving and improvement. - What does respect for people look like in practice?
Consider how Toyota’s principle applies to developing people and involving them in improving their work. - Recognize the eight types of waste in healthcare.
Use hospital examples to spot delays, rework, and other process problems that make care harder to deliver. - Make daily management boards useful.
Find free tracking templates and consider how your team will use the measures to discuss problems and follow through. - How safe is it to admit a mistake at work?
Reflect on poll results about psychological safety and what employees expect after acknowledging a mistake.
