All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
I might not be the most financially-literate Lean practitioner out there. I’m fortunate to have an MBA on top of my engineering degrees, so I’ve had exposure to some accounting and corporate finance terms. Not everybody has that education, though.…
A colleague from KaiNexus sent me a photo from his daughter’s third-grade classroom. It’s titled “The Magic of Growth Mindset,” a reference to the concept and the book Mindset by Carol Dweck. The Grade 3 students probably aren’t reading Dweck’s…
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… Top 10 Most-Clicked Links…
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…
“I’ll have a half-caff no-whip soy-milk chestnut praline latte… to-go.” Listen: Here is the episode if you want to stream the audio: In Episode 37, we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with some new (to us) holiday…
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…
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…
In this LeanBlog Podcast episode, Tom Peters shares why “extreme humanism” is essential to modern leadership. He explains why caring deeply about people isn’t soft–it’s the foundation of excellence, innovation, and sustainable performance. Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript,…
TL;DR: UMass Memorial Health has implemented more than 100,000 employee improvement ideas by treating continuous improvement as a leadership responsibility–not a suggestion program. This post highlights how clear expectations, psychological safety, and enabling systems allow frontline ideas to turn into…
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…
Listen: Here is the episode if you want to stream the audio: In Episode 36, Jamie Flinchbaugh is joined by Chris Kauzmann, an Adjunct Faculty and Innovator in Residence at Lehigh University. Chris, a self-described “bottom shelf” whiskey drinker, joins…
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…
