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Announcement: Dr. Greg Jacobson and I are doing a new webinar for KaiNexus on “More Leadership Behaviors That Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement‘” on January 27. It’s free… learn more and register here. * * * * * *…
For Oregon Football, Leadership Doesn’t Mean Yelling and Screaming The stereotype of a football coach is sort of like the stereotype of an Army drill sergeant — lots of yelling and screaming and getting “in your face” when a mistake…
Here’s my latest cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist (and medical assistant), Carrie Schurman. You can see the whole series via this link. In the Lean world, we talk a lot about how “firefighting” is bad in an organization. What do…
The concept of “Throwback Thursday” is very popular on social media platforms, especially when it comes to people sharing old pictures. Yes, that’s me as an infant there. No, I probably wasn’t criticizing a lack of “external setup” or a…
I had planned on chilling out over the holidays by reading some books that aren’t related to Lean, Kaizen, etc. Novels are not normally my thing and I started reading How Doctors Think, which had been on my Kindle to-read list…
Thankfully, it has been a while since I’ve had to post something about technical difficulties here on the blog. Thanks to my reader survey, two people pointed out that they were having trouble opening the daily or weekly automated emails…
Today’s post is just something pointing I wrote another article for the LinkedIn “Influencer” series (see my past posts here). The new article is titled: “The Little Difference That Turned “No Ideas” Into “Lots of Ideas.” You can also read…
Here’s the latest video in the series that Joe Swartz and I shot at Franciscan St. Francis Health back in October. Pharmacy manager (now director) Ronda Freije shares her experiences in engaging staff and piloting and evaluating changes in a PDSA…
Happy New Year! Let’s talk about Lean. Let’s talk about Kaizen and continuous improvement and how to get better in 2015. You’re possibly thinking, “Hey, Mark, chill… watch some football… relax… it’s a holiday.” But, you’re reading this, so you…
David Mann explains why creating a Lean culture depends on leader behavior and management systems–not tools or compliance–and how leader standard work helps sustain improvement. He shares practical guidance for executives on using Gemba walks to learn, teach, and reinforce…
Thanks to everybody for reading my blog in 2014! As always, I appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to read and participate in the discussion and I hope you’ll continue visiting the site in 2015… the tenth anniversary…
Friday, I shared my song “Gemba Claus is Comin’ to Town,” and I thought I was done posting for the year. But my wife and I were watching a recording of the old “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” special. We couldn’t help…
