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John W. Parks IV, pictured at left, is a Professor of Percussion at Florida State University. He was one of my favorite people during my time as an undergraduate student at Northwestern University. I played drums in the marching band there…
I first blogged about this article back in 2009 and it’s still online: “Keen to Be Lean“ The sub headline talks about hospitals being “desperate to cut costs.” Has that changed? I wish the motivation was more often about hospitals…
I hope you’re a regular listener to my Lean Blog Podcast series, where I’ve interviewed authors and Lean leaders since 2006. I’ve been doing podcasts so long that they were trendy, then out of style, and now they’ve been fashionable…
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Update: See the bottom of the post for the webinar recording. I get to talk with many people who are leading improvement efforts in different health systems (and, sometimes, in different industries). Within our KaiNexus team and ecosystem, our VP…
I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover of the Northwestern University alumni magazine. See this profile and story: “DRIVING GM“ My wife is an engineer and a…
I don’t know anything about farming. The only time I spend on “farms” is visits to wineries that grow grapes, as I’ve blogged about before. I was contacted recently by Jesse Frost, who was working on this article that’s now…
Following up on last week’s post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year…. Again, one of the things I do for KaiNexus is produce and host our monthly free webinar series. You can view all…
Joining me for Episode #269 are Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, co-authors of the recently released book Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World’s Top High-performance Organizations. They are founders of the international Kotinos Partners consultancy. In this episode, we talk about the…
Back in 2014, I wrote about a CBC radio piece that featured, among other organizations, St. Mary’s General Hospital in Ontario: You can check out that post with a link to the CBC audio and my summary of it: Must…
Here’s Part 2 of a post about the original NUMMI Team Member Handbook from 1984 (see Part 1 here). This, and other documents I’ll be blogging about, are part of Don Ephlin’s UAW office papers, archived at the Walter P. Reuther…
I get annoyed by corporate euphemisms, such as referring to people as “resources,” the term “right-sizing” for layoffs, and the type of jargon and babble parodied in the Weird Al song “Mission Statement.” Using unclear language can intentionally mask and hide…
