Mark Graban

With a heavy heart, I'd like to honor and remember David Mann, a noted author in the #Lean Management community, who passed away on the 26th. You can...

Last year, I looked at the free throw statistics of Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons. News headlines talked about how much he had improved his free throws, so I looked at one of his performance metrics (free throw percentage) to see if the increase was "signal" or "noise." Why write about basketball? Well, there are lessons that we can learn and apply to our own workplace metrics, as I write about in my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More.

Here's a musical holiday treat for my regular Lean Blog readers and podcast listeners, a song parody, originally released in 2009, remastered a bit...

I'll be off on vacation through the New Year holiday. See you in January with more blog posts and podcasts! Happy Holidays!

As the year draws to a close, it's a pivotal time for reflection, both on a personal level and within our teams and organizations.Traditionally,...

Thanks, everybody, for reading my blog here in 2023. And for listening to podcasts... oh so many podcasts. This blog post is the "year...

This post is built around excerpts from the book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. Read more about Toyota,...

The book giveaway contest that I'm running ends Friday at about 3 pm ET. ENTER TO WIN a set of all six books that I've...

tl;dr summary: A journal article evidences Lean's effectiveness in healthcare, challenging skeptics. It finds that Lean adoption in U.S. public hospitals is linked to...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #494 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Chad Bareither, the founder...

Listen: In Episode 43 of the "Lean Whiskey" podcast, Jamie Flinchbaugh and Mark Graban begin by talking about each of our interviews regarding the new...

This is a repost from my blog post about a talk I gave in 2018... I always enjoy the KaiNexus User Conference (now called...