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Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker who has worked in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups. His latest book is Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More. He is author of the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, as well as The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen. He also published the anthology Practicing Lean that benefits the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation, where Mark is a board member. Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.

Gemba Claus is Comin’ to Town! [Song]

Mark Graban Dec 24, 2022 14
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Here's a musical holiday treat for my regular Lean Blog readers and podcast listeners, a song parody, originally…

Process Behavior Charts: The Christmas Tale / Le Conte de Noël [eBook]

Mark Graban Dec 24, 2022 0
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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?

Mark Graban Dec 23, 2022 0
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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…

Mark Graban Dec 22, 2022 0
Lean Whiskey
"I'll have a half-caff no-whip soy-milk chestnut praline latte... to-go." Listen: Here is the episode if you…

What Were the 10 Most Read Lean Blog Posts of 2022?

Mark Graban Dec 16, 2022 0
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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

Mark Graban Dec 15, 2022 0
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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

Mark Graban Dec 13, 2022 0
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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #465 of the…

Employee Ideas and Other Improvement Work at UMass Memorial Health

Mark Graban Dec 12, 2022 0
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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

Mark Graban Dec 12, 2022 0
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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…

Mark Graban Dec 9, 2022 0
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Listen: Here is the episode if you want to stream the audio: In Episode 36, Jamie Flinchbaugh is…

What Blog Post Would an AI Bot Write About Lean in Healthcare?

Mark Graban Dec 8, 2022 0
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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…

Mark Graban Dec 6, 2022 0
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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

Mark Graban Nov 30, 2022 2
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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #464 of the Lean…

Creating a Culture of Transparency: Lessons from GE CEO Larry Culp on…

Mark Graban Nov 29, 2022 0
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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

Mark Graban Nov 27, 2022 1
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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…

Mark Graban Nov 23, 2022 2
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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

Mark Graban Nov 22, 2022 0
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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

Mark Graban Nov 21, 2022 0
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I love this clip of John Amaechi (also embedded below), a former NBA player turned psychologist from…
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