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.
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 Transformation Projects, Improvements, and Learning in...
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 includes a video...
Lean Whiskey #36: Jamie Flinchbaugh & Chris Kauzmann on Design Thinking’s...
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In Episode 36, Jamie Flinchbaugh is joined by Chris Kauzmann, an Adjunct Faculty and...
What Blog Post Would an AI Bot Write About Lean in...
There's a new "AI copy writing tool" that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial and, of...
Learn How to Reduce Nursing Turnover and Attrition in Healthcare —...
Nursing turnover is very likely costing your organization millions of dollars. But you don't have to just accept that... you can fix it.
I'm happy...
Katie Anderson Discusses Larry Culp’s AME Keynote And Their Fireside Chat
My guest for Episode #464 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Katie Anderson, who is, among other things, the author of the book...
Creating a Culture of Transparency: Lessons from GE CEO Larry Culp...
Making it Safe for Bad News to Flow to the CEO (or Other Leaders)
Following up on my blog post about GE CEO Larry Culp's...
Insights from GE CEO Larry Culp’s Speech at the AME Conference...
It was a real treat to hear Larry Culp, the CEO of General Electric and CEO of GE Aerospace, speak at the AME 2022...
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 those, including the Wall St Journal, who...
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 England.
He's very wise, and I've...
At Toyota: Mistakes are OK, as Long as We Learn; Culture...
The book that I'm writing on learning from mistakes is not an academic research-driven project. My "field research" mainly consists of the 200 podcast...
How a Small Test of Change Can Prevent Bigger Mistakes –...
In the history of our KaiNexus continuous improvement webinar series, we've used a few platforms over time. We used WebEx for many years, but...
