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ChatGPT is still all the rage. It's one thing to treat the chatbot like Google. But I recently learned about some capabilities that are far more interesting -- the ability to "simulate" events that never happened in real life (a.k.a. "the…
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I'm looking forward to reading the new book by Uri Levine, the founder of Waze. It's titled: Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs I hope to interview him on "My Favorite MIstake" because he…
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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. Insights about improvement, innovation, and…
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As I'm trying to finish my book about learning from mistakes ("The Mistakes That Make Us"), I have examples from many different types of companies, including KaiNexus, that have a very strong and intentional culture of learning from…
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Timothy R. Clark, who started his career in manufacturing leadership, is the author of The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety. He has a short definition of psychological safety: "A culture of rewarded vulnerability" To unpack…
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I'm happy to have hosted and moderated a panel discussion format webinar that was sponsored by Value Capture. It's titled: Why Does the U.S. Need a National Patient Safety Board? Click the link above to register. The panelists…
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How is Your Individual Level of Psychological Safety in Your Workplace, Healthcare or Otherwise? Your feeling of Psychological Safety is not "yes/no" - it's not a matter of feeling safe or not. There are degrees of safety, it's a…
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Let's commemorate Monday's national holiday for Dr. King with a look back at my post from 2012... A Lean Lesson from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And, here a quote that should remind folks of Kaizen and continuous improvement: …
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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get these directly from Ryan via email. Insights about improvement, innovation, and…
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I bet many of you know the famous "Chocolate Factory" scene from the TV classic "I Love Lucy." Even if you're too young to know the series or Lucille Ball, I bet many of you have seen this in a Lean training class. I can't count how many…
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I've mentioned before that I'm writing a book based on -- inspired by -- the interviews, stories, and insights from my guests on the My Favorite Mistake podcast. The book isn't just a collection of transcripts of those stories. That…
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I might not be the most financially-literate Lean practitioner out there. I'm fortunate to have an MBA on top of my engineering degrees, so I've had exposure to some accounting and corporate finance terms. Not everybody has that…
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A colleague from KaiNexus sent me a photo from his daughter's third-grade classroom. It's titled "The Magic of Growth Mindset," a reference to the concept and the book Mindset by Carol Dweck. The Grade 3 students probably…
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Charts like this always make me wonder why we throw away the additional context of data from 2016 when we start the 2017 chart. It's unlikely that January 1st in any given year is the magical creation of a new system or a new process. In…
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