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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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It's always a fun day of learning when I get a chance to teach and facilitate my day-long workshop that will teach you the core concepts from my book Measures of Success. Why take a workshop? Well, you'll get a chance to…
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KaiNexus and I were happy to host an excellent webiner by Barry O'Reilly, the author of the book Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. The webinar is on these themes: Why Great Leaders Must Unlearn to…
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Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. I sometimes also re-share items…
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Mark's note: It's been a long time since Andy Wagner contributed a post to the blog, but we've remained friends and I was happy that he accepted my invitation to share thoughts on a recent discovery of his. As a student of…
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It's a short blog post today due to too much time being consumed with travel delays and airline customer service incompetence the last two days. I should have built up a greater inventory of blog posts that were written in advance to be…
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Marc-Olivier and Jean-Marc at KataCon 5 this week My guests for Episode #333 are Jean-Marc Legentil and Marc-Olivier Legentil, father-and-son Lean consultants from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They work together in the firm Bell-Nordic…
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I'm very happy that my friend and long-time colleague Meghan Scanlon, a Principal with the firm Value Capture, presented a webinar that KaiNexus and I be hosted on February 27th: Pursuing Zero Harm: A Powerful Platform for Embedding…
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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Daily safety huddles are simple, inexpensive, and effective methods to raise and escalate patient safety risks. Start your safety huddles today with some tips from the…
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I like to exercise, and it's important to me and my health. I've never been a runner (bad knees), so I prefer using an elliptical machine. I've found that I work out more intensely when I use an iPhone app called Aaptiv that provides not…
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Joining me today for Episode #332 is Jason Burt, owner of EHIP Consulting. Jason is a Lean consultant and business coach with an extensive and diverse background, including a manufacturing career where he has led and coached organizations…
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I've published my most recent article on LinkedIn (and you can also read it on Medium.com if you don't have LinkedIn access). The article begins: "What do you hope to change in 2019? If your New Year's resolutions…
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First, an announcement... you can enter to win one of three eBook copies of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More. Unlike the previous Amazon giveaway, this contest is open to everybody, regardless of your country.…
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Apparently, we're at the time of year when companies send you the "we're sorry, but we're forced to raise prices" letter or email. Nobody is forced to raise prices. It's always a choice. Yes, it's a choice. Case: Home Alarm Monitoring…
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Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a (usually) weekly post that presents some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week, including pictures and other interesting stuff. I sometimes also re-share items…
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