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This week, I received an unexpected and incredibly specific Christmas gift from Charles Desneuf on LinkedIn. He wrote a PDF eBook about Process Behavior Charts... and Christmas! This led to Charles collaborating with me on the English…
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I saw a story on the NBC Nightly News last night about the ChatGPT / OpenAI tool, and they used examples of asking the AI bot to explain concepts to a 5-year-old. After asking a similar tool to explain Lean in healthcare, I posed this…
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Thanks, everybody, for reading my blog here in 2022. And for listening to podcasts... so many podcasts again this year! Here are a few numbers, before we get to the most-read posts of the year. Podcast Numbers This year, I released…
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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 the holidays approach, I'm happy to be running two book giveaway contests that are running through December 20th. You might win and you might receive your prize before Christmas! You can enter to win via two separate contests…
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I hope you'll check out the recording of a webinar / panel discussion that I hosted via KaiNexus: Managing Transformation Projects, Improvements, and Learning in a Virtual Environment It's being presented by Cliona Archambeault and…
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When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video that gives an overview of the Toyota Production System. I've seen the video a few times there. But I've never…
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There's a new "AI copy writing tool" that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial and, of course, I tested it by asking the service to write a blog post about Lean in healthcare. I gave it some keywords,…
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Nursing turnover is very likely costing your organization millions of dollars. But you don't have to just accept that... you can fix it. I'm happy to have moderated a webinar that was hosted by Value Capture, presented by two leaders…
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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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Making it Safe for Bad News to Flow to the CEO (or Other Leaders) Following up on my blog post about GE CEO Larry Culp's AME keynote speech, I wanted to share some of the discussion from his "fireside chat, absent the fire" (as Larry…
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It was a real treat to hear Larry Culp, the CEO of General Electric and CEO of GE Aerospace, speak at the AME 2022 annual conference in Dallas. He recently reached the four-year mark of his tenure as GE's first-ever outsider CEO (read the…
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At the hospital on Monday, a chaplain shared a Thanksgiving poem on the theme of being grateful. It struck a chord with me. As a Lean practitioner, it's easy to focus on the waste... the problems... the gaps. We think about what could be…
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A culture of learning makes the difference, not "low inventory" Last year, I wrote a post that criticized those, including the Wall St Journal, who claimed that Toyota was "abandoning" the Toyota Production System or that strategically…
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