Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's latest book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean, previous Shingo recipients.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Changing the Culture: Cursing Football Coaches, Attacking the Change Agent
John W. Parks IV, pictured at left, is a Professor of Percussion at Florida State University. He was one of my favorite people during my...
#TBT: What CFO Magazine Wrote About #Lean in 2009
I first blogged about this article back in 2009 and it's still online:
"Keen to Be Lean"
The sub headline talks about hospitals being "desperate to...
A New Experiment: Highlights from my September Podcast with Steve Spear
I hope you're a regular listener to my Lean Blog Podcast series, where I've interviewed authors and Lean leaders since 2006.
I've been doing podcasts...
Guest Post: What Will Process Excellence Look Like in 2025?
Mark's Note: Today's guest post is brought to you through a media partnership between LeanBlog.org and PEX Network. Lean Blog readers can get a 15%...
Free Webinar: How to Improve End-of-Year Improvement Reporting
Update: See the bottom of the post for the webinar recording.
I get to talk with many people who are leading improvement efforts in different...
“The reign of the king-leader is gone” at GM? What about...
I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover of the Northwestern University...
But Pigs and Corn Aren’t Cars! #Lean in Farming
I don't know anything about farming. The only time I spend on "farms" is visits to wineries that grow grapes, as I've blogged about...
#TBT: Part 2, A Year of KaiNexus Webinars, July through December,...
Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year....
Again, one of the things I do...
Podcast #269 – Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, “Powerhouse” Book, Toyota,...
Joining me for Episode #269 are Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, co-authors of the recently released book Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-performance Organizations....
How St. Mary’s Hospital (Ontario) Succeeds Through Staff Kaizen Ideas
Back in 2014, I wrote about a CBC radio piece that featured, among other organizations, St. Mary's General Hospital in Ontario:
You can check out...
Part 2: More From the Original 1984 NUMMI Team Member Handbook:...
Here's Part 2 of a post about the original NUMMI Team Member Handbook from 1984 (see Part 1 here).
This, and other documents that I'll...
Examples of Corporate Speak That Masks Reality in Banking and Healthcare
I get annoyed by corporate euphemisms, such as referring to people as "resources," the term "right-sizing" for layoffs, and the type of jargon and babble...
