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The famous WKRP turkey drop is a funny TV moment, but it’s also a sharp case study in non-Lean leadership–unchecked assumptions, fear-driven hierarchy, lack of input from the team, and big rollouts without testing. It’s a reminder that leadership failures…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there’s always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Healthcare — Creating Value for Patients It’s exciting to see that Covid vaccines are on the way. But the…
Today’s episode, #394, is a little different. I have nine different guests today… not all at once, but sequentially in today’s episode. Many people have started podcasts (or similar projects) during the pandemic. I’ve started two (Habitual Excellence and My…
Joining me for Episode #393 of the podcast is Woody Zuill, who does, per his website, “mob Programming workshops, talks and presentations on agile topics,” and he coaches and guides “folks interested in creating a wonderful workplace where people can excel in their…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there’s always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Healthcare — Creating Value for Patients Kaiser Permanente has been trialing an Advanced Alert Monitor where electronic data is…
Joining me for Episode #392 is Mike Leigh, the President of his firm OpX Solutions, LLC. Mike was one of the contributors, writing a chapter for our anthology book Practicing Lean. Some highlights from Mike’s career, from his bio: Today,…
A few years ago, my wife and I went to a highly-regarded (and oft-recommended) restaurant in the Orlando area (our now former home). I ordered a brined, bone-in pork chop. When it came out, looking somewhat like the photo below,…
My guests for Episode #391 are Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck, the authors of books including Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Implementing Lean Software Development, and The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions. In the episode, we’ll hear their…
Today is, of course, election day in the United States. Here is a post with some random thoughts. I was fortunate in that I was able to vote in person, early in Texas last month (that is my permanent home…
For Episode 22, Mark Graban is joined by Darril Wilburn and Sammy Obara, two former Toyota employees who are colleagues at the firm Honsha. They are two of the authors of the excellent book Toyota by Toyota. The three talk…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… Healthcare — Creating Value for Patients How Virginia Mason is using lessons learned from Covid-19 The proliferation of Electronic Health Records means more data is available to clinicians and administrators than ever…
tl;dr: RAG and bowling charts trigger overreaction and hide real system behavior. Process Behavior Charts reveal whether performance is truly changing, helping leaders focus on causes instead of colors and make better improvement decisions. In my book Measures of Success:…
