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.
The Toyota Way: Responding to, Preventing and Learning from Mistakes with...
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My guest for Episode #498 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Jeffrey K. Liker. Jeff...
Reflecting on Career Choices: The Wisdom of Hindsight in Quitting Jobs...
The following material was cut from my latest book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. It just didn't...
From 2012: Kaizen on the Boeing 737 Line (Lean and Continuous...
2024 Preface: I'm re-posting this blog post from 2012 about Lean at Boeing. The WSJ headline emphasizes "speed up," but that could be the...
Continuous Improvement Requires Psychological Safety and Continuous Improvement
"At least two of the major things that are required for continuous improvement to take root: Psychological Safety and problem-solving..."
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Chef Gordon Ramsay on Never Making the Same Mistake Twice
I loved a recent New York Times article about Chef Gordon Ramsay, including this part:
"Ramsay said that when he makes a mistake, he owns...
Looking Ahead to Greg Jacobson’s Keynote at the HSPI Conference
As a previous keynote speaker at this event, and as a friend and colleague of KaiNexus CEO Dr. Greg Jacobson, I was very excited...
Lean Leadership in Action: CEO Larry Culp’s Journey to Revitalize GE...
As I recently shared on LinkedIn, I really appreciated the annual shareholder letter that was published and shared by Larry Culp, who has been...
Closing Boeing’s “Shadow Factory” is Harder Than it Sounds
For a long time, I've heard the phrase "the hidden factory" used to describe various forms of waste in a factory, including rework operations...
Improving MRI Safety for Patients and Staff: Tobias Gilk
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My guest for Episode #497 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Tobias Gilk, the founder...
The Problem (737 MAX and Beyond) at Boeing Isn’t “Idiots.” It’s...
As we sit in seat 26A, mindlessly watching a movie, we take for granted that our cell phone (or the shirt off our back)...
What Will a “Quality Stand Down” Day Accomplish at Boeing?
What do Boeing frontline mechanics and engineers think about this day? What did they expect going into it? How did the day turn out?...
Apply Operations Science to Accelerate Success Now, with Ed Pound [Webinar...
I'm excited to be hosting and moderating a new webinar that's part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement webinar series, to be presented by Ed...
