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I’m happy to have hosted and moderated a panel discussion format webinar that was sponsored by Value Capture. It’s titled: Why Does the U.S. Need a National Patient Safety Board? Click the link above to register. The panelists are two…
Psychological Safety Exists on a Spectrum How is Your Individual Level of Psychological Safety in your workplace, healthcare, or otherwise? Psychological safety is not a yes-or-no condition–it exists in degrees. It’s not a matter of feeling safe or not. There…
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…
Many Lean practitioners know the famous Lucy and the Chocolate Factory Lean example from I Love Lucy–a scene that’s been used for decades to illustrate poor work design, overburden, and fear-driven management. Even if you’re too young to know the…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more Joining us for Episode #466 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is a returning guest, Billy Taylor. Since his last appearance, Billy has written and released a great book titled The…
I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a book based on — inspired by — the interviews, stories, and insights from my guests on the My Favorite Mistake podcast. The book isn’t just a collection of transcripts of those stories. That…
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…
