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.
Finding Joy in Your work
Postbulletin.com: Harvey Mackay: Work for the love of it all - Mon, Oct 15, 2007For all of the complaining we do about the airlines...
A Very Non-Lean ER Experience
Thanks to a Lean Blog reader, Matt, for sending this first-hand account. I'm sorry he (and his wife) had to go through this...
Sorry, we have no Toast at Toast!
I can't say this is strictly Lean related, but I thought this was funny and I'll share it anyway. So I'm at the...
Kids Learning About Lean
SaukValley.com - Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls:Here's a news story about career day at a High School and someone talking about Lean (I...
How Curiosity Empowers Toyota
Business Week ArticleHere is a new article from Business Week, which also focuses on the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from...
Putting the Burden on Patients?
I saw this ad (click on the photo for a larger, readable view) in the Wall Street Journal Monday. It's an ad run...
Lowest Bidder? No Wonder There Are Problems
Marketplace: Road construction paved with problemsDr. Deming always preached to not choose suppliers based on price alone. Many companies and industries have never...
A Lean Guy Reads the Seattle Times
I've done this before with the WSJ... since I was in Seattle, I saw the Sunday Seattle Times, which had many articles that had...
Bragging About Long Cycle Time?
Thanks to a Lean Blog reader, Ryan, for sending this in (click on the ad for a larger image). He asked why BMW...
Sunday Night Muda
I'm in Seattle, about a mile from the stadium where the Seahawks are playing the Saints tonight. I was tempted to get a ticket,...
Waste in Auto Marketing
Guest Post By Mike Thelen:--------------------------------I received an interesting piece of "junk mail" this morning. What caught my attention and provoked me to open...
Copying Toyota’s Past Practices or Toyota’s Thinking?
With our Lean efforts, it's always good to ask, are we:Copying Toyota's past methods,Copying Toyota's current methods ORCopying Toyota's thought process and conceptsIf you're...
