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She Tried to Build Her Own Lean Coaching AI. Then She Subscribed to Mine.

Mark Graban - March 13, 2026

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Hospitals Still Miss Half of Patient Harm Events — And the Reasons Why...

Mark Graban - March 12, 2026

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The One Thing ChatGPT Does That Most Leaders Won’t

Mark Graban - March 10, 2026

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Kaizen: The Improvement System Most Organizations Talk About but Struggle to Practice

Mark Graban - March 10, 2026

Healthcare leader evaluating AI tools at a crossroads between a transparent AI with guardrails and a generic black box AI, hospital setting

How to Evaluate AI Tools for Healthcare Improvement: A Lean Thinker’s Checklist

Mark Graban - March 9, 2026

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Lean Champions Are Critically Important

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Instead of raising stamp rates, the USPS should cut costs

Mark Graban - January 9, 2006 3

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Ford’s Future

Luke Van Dongen - January 8, 2006 1

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The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart

Mark Graban - January 6, 2006 3

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"Favorite Posts" Q4 2005

Mark Graban - January 3, 2006 0

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New Year’s Lean Resolutions??

Mark Graban - December 31, 2005 3

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Clearly Communicated Standards a Must

Luke Van Dongen - December 31, 2005 1

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Young don’t see promise of auto industry

Mark Graban - December 29, 2005 1

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Manufacturing TV Show: How it’s made

Mark Graban - December 28, 2005 1

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USPS Christmas Card Damage: A Lean Lesson on Defects and Root...

Mark Graban - December 28, 2005 0

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NY Times, USA Today, and NPR Report on Toyota

Mark Graban - December 21, 2005 4

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Lean Healthcare: Thedacare

Luke Van Dongen - December 20, 2005 1

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Jack Benedict on The One Thing ChatGPT Does That Most Leaders Won’tMarch 11, 2026
I enjoyed reading this blog by Mark Graban and read his comparisons about how chat GPT “can make mistakes” and…
William Brew on The One Thing ChatGPT Does That Most Leaders Won’tMarch 11, 2026
One takeaway from this article is that admitting when you are wrong actually builds more trust instead of making you…
Zachary Capen on Kaizen: The Improvement System Most Organizations Talk About but Struggle to PracticeMarch 10, 2026
This post really showed me what kaizen really means and why so many organizations struggle to implement it well. One…
Mark Graban on Stop Reacting to Red Light Metrics: Why ‘Two Reds in a Row’ Is a Misleading Rule of ThumbMarch 7, 2026
Is it a good rule to say, "If there are 2 red data points in a row, do a root…
Jack Benedict on Fujio Cho on Standardized Work: The Foundation for Improvement, Not ControlMarch 4, 2026
I enjoyed reading this article and the points that the author made about standardized work and how it is confused…

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