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I've had some cartoons on the blog before, including a few "Doofus & Leanies."  I can't draw at all, believe me…

In our Healthcare Kaizen books, Joe Swartz and I have tried to make the case that the Kaizen style of continuous…

The price paid for most management consulting work is based on either a daily rate or some variation of a…

Thanks everybody for reading my blog in 2013! I appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to read and…

Today, I'm spending the day with a health system and their quarterly management retreat, which includes about 200…

A principle that has been often discussed (and hopefully practiced) in the Lean community over the past few…

My whole career, I have worked with the Lean methodology (aka the Toyota Production System). I've just really never…

No, this isn't a post about the the 80s Chicago tune "Hard Habit to Break." It's about individual habits related to…

I've often blogged about Dilbert and "dilbert lean" is a fairly common search term, so I thought I'd do my best to…

First off, a huge thumbs up and thanks are due to Eric Ries and his thought-provoking "Startup Lessons Learned"…

In discussions of "kaizen" (the Japanese word that is translated to "continuous improvement" or "change for the…

Regular readers might know that I'm working on a second book project, about "kaizen" (continuous improvement) in…

This is going to seem like a political rant, but I promise this is mainly a post about Lean and healthcare, or at…

Note: I edited the post title on April 3 to make it clear this was an April Fool's Joke. Comments posted by readers…

Regular followers of my blog know that I've been creating audio podcasts since 2006. Later today (at 3 PM), I am…

Here's one to ponder and comment on - does putting a pharmacist in jail for six months and ruining his career and…

In the blog tradition of "Top 10" lists (and "do not say" lists, like this one from Time or this workplace list…