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Thanks to my book coach Cathy Fyock for the “Ask Me About My Book” coffee mug and for the coaching she’s provided along the way for The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. She’s also provided me…
This week is National Nurses Week. Nurses are highly skilled and, too often, are underappreciated.
Lean should be one of the best things that ever happened to nurses. In a truly Lean environment, we wouldn't be understaffed. Nurses wouldn't get blamed and punished for systemic problems. Hospitals and the broader healthcare system would break down silos and barriers to care. And, nurses would be treated respectfully by everybody in the system at all times.
Instead of being a hospital to celebrate and thank nurses, I'm on some vacation time through next Tuesday. So, I'll leave some of my favorite blog posts and podcasts about nursing and Lean here in this post.
Thursday, I hosted and moderated the third and final webinar about “Habit Loops” as part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinar Series, presented by Morgan Wright (Customer Marketing Manager) and Greg Jacobson, MD (co-founder and CEO), both from KaiNexus. Come…
More than once over a few months, I opened a fresh box of tea and found the tea bags sideways. Not stacked flat the way the dispenser box clearly intends, but rotated a full 90 degrees and standing on end,…
Listen: In Episode 39, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh toast the completion of Mark’s new book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation (coming soon!). Technical note: If you want to skip the whiskey talk,…
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 leadership… Operational Excellence, Improvement, and…
If you’re interested in my upcoming book (available June XX, date TBD), The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, the Kindle edition is available to be pre-ordered now through Amazon! The date is set as…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more Joining us for Episode #474 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Norbert Majerus. He has his own firm now but previously worked for Goodyear, joining the company in 1978 in…
The following material was found on the “cutting room floor” for my upcoming book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. And I’ve supplemented it with some new material to flesh it out into a…
And this is why we test things... to discover issues that we didn't anticipate in advance.
I thought I was being clever by putting a QR code in the upper right-hand corner of the slide earlier.
But I didn't realize, until doing the LinkedIn Live test this morning, that the Zoom Webinar video window covered part of the QR code, as you can see below.
On Tuesday, May 2nd, I hosted a live event to reveal the full cover of my upcoming book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. The Kindle version of the book is now available for…
This was in the news the other day, and it’s fun to talk about mistakes that don’t harm or kill anybody: Confetti delays Celtics-Hawks Game 4 playoffs series As the game announcers described, it was “a legitimate confetti issue” with…
