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by Dan Markovitz Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 blog at WSJ.com features his ideas for “Management Moonshots” — 25 ambitious and radical ideas that will significantly improve business management in the future. Frankly, I wasn’t terribly impressed. Some of the ideas…
Hulu – ER: Old Times – Watch the full episode now. Thanks to Bryan to bringing this episode of ER to my attention. I don’t normally watch it, but my wife always DVRs it, so I was able to watch…
Lean Insider: Book Talk: Lean Hospitals Here’s a quick link to an interview that Ralph Bernstein, of the Lean Insider blog at Productivity Press, conducted with me the other day about my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and…
TL;DR: “Toyota’s ‘stop the line’ concept is being adapted for healthcare — empowering any staff member to pause a procedure when something seems wrong, before it becomes a harm event. A surgical tech suspects the wrong patient has been brought…
Dear Todd: My wife and I are both big fans of your The Olives Table cookbook, your television shows, and your Olives restaurant in Las Vegas. We most recently had a chance to enjoy the wonderful pizzas at your Figs…
Dennis Quaid Takes Oprah To Hospital That OD’d His Babies This might be the first time I’m DVR-ing the Oprah show. Tomorrow, actor Dennis Quaid will talk about the medical errors that nearly killed his twin babies. For the first…
TheDay.com – Food safety problems slip by auditors You might remember my rants about the Idiot Corp… I mean Peanut Corporation of America. Just saw now in the news that they had an “inspection” that, upon closer inspection, is either…
By Adam Zak, Adam Zak Executive Search: “Respect for people: Very few businesses start up only on the backs of the sole founder. It takes a team.” Jamie Flinchbaugh Earlier this week, Jamie blogged about the Lean Entrepreneur. With layoffs…
Ah, summits. I once watched Coach Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Lady Volunteers take a 35 to 2 lead against my Northwestern Wildcats in the first few minutes of an NCAA basketball tournament game. That was too big of a deficit to…
Training Within Healthcare (TWI Newsletter) – PDF File It’s been a busy week, helping spread the word about Lean healthcare in Puerto Rico, something I’ll be able to blog about soon. So, I’ll be lazy and post an article I…
There is no question at this point that 2009 is the worst economy we’ve all seen since the great depression. Good people are getting laid off left and right because their employer just doesn’t have work for them. And of…
Hi everyone — sorry there was no post this morning, my flight home landed at 1 am and I was exhausted this morning, taking it sort of as a vacation day. I have a lot of blogging to catch up,…
