All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Nursing turnover is very likely costing your organization millions of dollars. But you don’t have to just accept that… you can fix it. I’m happy to have moderated a webinar that was hosted by Value Capture, presented by two leaders…
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TL;DR: Larry Culp’s AME keynote shows that Lean leadership at GE is about how leaders think, learn, and respond to problems–not tools. Katie Anderson and Mark Graban discuss psychological safety, gemba, learning from mistakes, and building culture through daily leadership…
TL;DR: Leaders don’t get bad news faster by asking for it — they get it faster by proving, in the moment of truth, that it’s safe and worthwhile to speak up. In Lean terms, this isn’t a communication problem —…
It was a real treat to hear Larry Culp, the CEO of General Electric and CEO of GE Aerospace, speak at the AME 2022 annual conference in Dallas. He recently reached the four-year mark of his tenure as GE’s first-ever…
A culture of learning makes the difference, not “low inventory” Last year, I wrote a post that criticized those, including the Wall St Journal, who claimed that Toyota was “abandoning” the Toyota Production System or that strategically adding some inventory…
Failure is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Lean and continuous improvement. Leaders talk about learning, experimentation, and growth mindset–but in practice, early mistakes are often treated as evidence that people or ideas aren’t ready. That gap between intention…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there’s always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Get these directly from Ryan via email. Insights about improvement, innovation, and leadership… Operational Excellence, Improvement, and Innovation Deliberate…
TL;DR: Looking for powerful Toyota quotes? Here are verified quotes from The Toyota Way and Toyota leaders on mistakes, learning, psychological safety, and continuous improvement — plus context on what they really mean. Toyota Quotes on Learning, Mistakes, and Psychological…
This post shares a simple, real example of Lean thinking in action–using small tests of change to learn safely and avoid bigger, more costly mistakes. A Real-World Example of Lean Thinking in Action In the history of our KaiNexus continuous…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #463 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Jim Benson, the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. He was previously a guest on Episodes…
Elon Musk tweeted this yesterday: “Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.” I host a podcast (and am writing a book) about learning from mistakes…
