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I recently blogged about a healthcare improvement job posting that had me scratching my head when the interviewing process included an process improvement exercise that specified NOT talking to employees or patients. Today, I'm blogging…

This Business Insider article caught my eye the other day: A celebrity chef who owns 26 restaurants explains why he loves when employees shoot down his ideas I've eaten at a José Andrés tapas restaurant in Las Vegas before. So I was really…

Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. You can follow me @MarkGraban and join the fun and the…

The other day, I posted Episode #289 of the podcast, in which Kathleen Sharp and David Schoenwetter made some great points about respecting "push back" or "resistance to change." I've now posted a PDF summary of the podcast and you can read…

I'm teaching a daylong class on Lean healthcare today in San Antonio. It's something I've done twice a year for the past four years or so. My day here is part of a six-month program for healthcare professionals and different methods for…

Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) weekly post that summarizes some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. You can follow me @MarkGraban and join the fun and the…

I'm not looking for a traditional, full-time job, but a lot of job postings cross my path, as people are looking for referrals. A lot of what I see makes me shake my head, such as a job posting for "Lean" that requires a "Six Sigma Black…

I've blogged about football before - I should say "American football," since I have many international readers. I should say I've blogged about events on the football field and the approaches of football coaches that remind me of Lean…

When I was recently considering switching from an iPhone 6S to a newer iPhone 8 Plus (or an iPhone X), I wrote this post on LinkedIn, which I'll expand upon a bit in this post. I ended up buying an iPhone 8 Plus, a decision I don't regret…

Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) weekly post that summarizes some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. You can follow me @MarkGraban and join the fun and the…

One of the phrases and concepts that I love from Eric Ries and The Lean Startup is the idea of "success theater," which describes the efforts that we make to make things look good, even if actual performance isn't good or getting better. In…

Today, I'm looking back at at podcast from two years ago, sharing this written summary that hopefully better reaches an audience that doesn't listen to podcasts. I love The Good Jobs Strategy book and approach and I hope you're inspired by…