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Here is my latest article for "The Lean Post" and the Lean Enterprise Institute: But TPS Doesn't Apply to Us...." We hear that a lot. "But patient aren't cars." Well, true. "But we build planes, those are more…
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It's my second straight podcast with a healthcare CEO. This time, joining me for Episode #337 is Vance Jackson, FACHE, FACMPE, the President & CEO of Davis Health System, based in Elkins, West Virginia. Vance and I talk about…
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My finger is still bothering me a bit after surgery and I'm on the road doing workshops, so I'm trying to minimize typing... but "Key Tweets" only requires copy and paste... so here we go: Here's the latest installment of "Key…
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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients The new venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to fix healthcare is called "Haven" according to a new press release.  I will be following with interest. This…
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My guest for Episode #336 is Gladys Bogoshi, the Chief Executive Officer at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, one of the ten central hospitals in South Africa and the main teaching platform of the University of the…
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OK, sorry to do one more blog post about my book... but it's a very exciting day in that the paperback version of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More is now available for purchase through Amazon.com! …
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My typing is a bit hampered after my finger surgery still. At least my surgery was safe and my outcomes seem to be good. Not everybody is so lucky. This week is the annual Patient Safety Awareness Week. In this post, I'll try to help…
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My blogging and other typing might be limited a bit since I had a minor outpatient procedure to remove a ganglion cyst (or something similar) from a knuckle on my right hand pinky finger -- or what I call my "return key finger" since I'm a…
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Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) bi-monthly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets), including pictures and other interesting stuff. I sometimes also re-share items that I've posted on LinkedIn. …
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I'm going to think out loud here about book pricing for the paperback version of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More -- in the name of transparency and getting input, I'll share some thoughts below. As…
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For years, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I have used checklists when prepping for and running our various webinars via KaiNexus. You can join us today for a webinar that's being presented by Barry O'Reilly: "Why Great Leaders Must Unlearn to…
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It's two Barrys in a row on the podcast, as my guest for Episode #335 is Barry O'Reilly and we're talking, in depth, about his latest book, Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. Barry is a business…
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I've been battling some sort of bronchitis or respiratory infection for about five days now.... blah. Lots of coughing and my voice is shot. Good thing I'm traveling or speaking this week. And, I'm glad not to be in a hospital. Our…
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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Ontario is betting big on an untested hypothesis of reorganizing and consolidating healthcare operations and budgets predicting it will result in patients "seamlessly" moving through…
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Back in 2013, I wrote a LinkedIn article (orread on Medium) about how the "Doctors: Best of 2013" list in a San Antonio magazine had a disclaimer that warned: "S.A. Doctors: Best of 2013 is the name of our publication, not a title or…
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Joining me for Episode #334, all the way from Australia, is Barry McCarthy. Barry spent more than 15 years in leadership roles with Toyota in Australia and now works as an Associate with consulting firm Honsha. We were able to spend…
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Quite often, I used the famed "Red Bead Game" (a.k.a. the "Red Bead Experiment") that was made famous by W. Edwards Deming. Here are my previous blog posts about the game. You can also see my page with more resources about the game,…
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Recently, I blogged about how a Lean hospital would focus on reducing overwork on nurses and other staff: https://www.leanblog.org/2019/01/lean-should-be-the-solution-to-hospital-overwork-or-understaffing/ Another term that could…
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