Gemba Claus is Comin’ to Town! [Song]
Here's a musical holiday treat for my regular Lean Blog readers and podcast listeners, a song parody, originally…
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Process Behavior Charts: The Christmas Tale / Le Conte de Noël [eBook]
This week, I received an unexpected and incredibly specific Christmas gift from Charles Desneuf on LinkedIn. He…
How Would an AI Bot Explain Lean Manufacturing to a 5-Year-Old?
I saw a story on the NBC Nightly News last night about the ChatGPT / OpenAI tool, and they used examples of asking…
Lean Whiskey #37: Starbucks’ Gemba, Toyota’s Tour, Product Innovation…
"I'll have a half-caff no-whip soy-milk chestnut praline latte... to-go."
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What Were the 10 Most Read Lean Blog Posts of 2022?
Thanks, everybody, for reading my blog here in 2022. And for listening to podcasts... so many podcasts again this…
Enter to Win Books From Rich Sheridan and Tom Peters
As the holidays approach, I'm happy to be running two book giveaway contests that are running through December…
Interview with Tom Peters on His Compact Guide to Excellence – New Book
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My guest for Episode #465 of the…
Employee Ideas and Other Improvement Work at UMass Memorial Health
I hope you'll check out the recording of a webinar / panel discussion that I hosted via KaiNexus:
Managing…
The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan
When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that…
Lean Whiskey #36: Jamie Flinchbaugh & Chris Kauzmann on Design…
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What Blog Post Would an AI Bot Write About Lean in Healthcare?
There's a new "AI copy writing tool" that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial…
Learn How to Reduce Nursing Turnover and Attrition in Healthcare — Free…
Nursing turnover is very likely costing your organization millions of dollars. But you don't have to just accept…
Katie Anderson Discusses Larry Culp’s AME Keynote and Their Fireside Chat
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My guest for Episode #464 of the Lean…
Creating a Culture of Transparency: Lessons from GE CEO Larry Culp on…
Making it Safe for Bad News to Flow to the CEO (or Other Leaders)
Following up on my blog post about GE CEO…
Insights from GE CEO Larry Culp’s Speech at the AME Conference in Dallas
It was a real treat to hear Larry Culp, the CEO of General Electric and CEO of GE Aerospace, speak at the AME 2022…
Thanksgiving and Gratitude – Can We Be Thankful For Waste, Problems, and…
At the hospital on Monday, a chaplain shared a Thanksgiving poem on the theme of being grateful.
It struck a…
Toyota Was Helped, not Hampered, by TPS During the Pandemic
A culture of learning makes the difference, not "low inventory"
Last year, I wrote a post that criticized…
An Amazing Reframing of Failure, in Sports and at Work
I love this clip of John Amaechi (also embedded below), a former NBA player turned psychologist from…