Come See a Culture of Continuous Improvement at Franciscan Health This October!
Registration is open for "Kaizen Live!" -- the 2019 edition.
Joe Swartz and I are excited to announce that…
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What Chefs and Restauranteurs Say About Learning From Failures & Mistakes
Speaking of mistakes, the cover image I selected for today's post reminds of traveling this past Monday. At…
Bob Lutz on Tesla, Threats, & Communication About Quality – and…
Hat tip to Stan Feingold from StoreSMART (a Lean Blog sponsor) for sending me this article:
Bob Lutz Talks…
Inside Toyota’s Takaoka #2 Line – Flexibility and Kaizen
This is an interesting article:
Inside Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line In The World
I…
Lean: A Combination of “Why?” and “Why Not?”
When we have really sticky, complicated problems (like the widespread healthcare patient safety and quality…
When Having a Process Improvement Idea Means You’re Weak?
I guess I'm wired for improvement. Or, it's just become a habit. Or, it's both.
I celebrate moments when I can…
How PBCs (Process Behavior Charts) Can Enhance the Practice of OKRs (Objectives…
Over the past year, I've heard about the "OKRs" methodology that is used in tech companies like Google. OKRs…
Video and Transcript: When Being Right is the Wrong Strategy for Change
I always enjoy the KaiNexus User Conference (now called KaiNexicon starting this year) and they ask me to give a…
When Old Habits and Old Science No Longer Make Sense – Evidence vs. Habit in…
If you missed yesterday's blog post and podcast with Dr. Rob Hackett from Australia, please check it out.
After…
A Hospital CEO Who Wants Other CEOs to “Give a Damn” About Their…
Here's an interesting column from Becker's Hospital Review, written by Michael Dowling, President and CEO,…
On Boeing, GM, and Hospitals… and Epic Battles Between Reality and…
Yesterday's blog post was about a situation (with my podcast hosting service) that triggered memories of my time…
On Podcast Server Downtime, Scars from General Motors, and Taking Ownership of My…
Ever since I started podcasting in 2006, I've been using a company called "Hipcast" to be the "hosting" company…
The CEO Leading the Culture Change at ZSFGH
Yesterday, I blogged about a CNO who was changing the culture at a hospital away from blaming individual nurses…
A Lean Guy Reads “Health Leaders” on Nursing Retention and Leadership
Here's the latest in an occasional ongoing series I call "A Lean Guy Reads ________".
Today, I'm reading…
WSJ News Flash: Developing Better Leaders Makes a Difference
Here's an interesting recent article from the Wall Street Journal (you might require a subscription to read it):
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Lean Should be the Solution to Hospital Overwork or Understaffing
The first part of this post is a pretty long introduction before sharing quotes and views from an article that…
Toyota as a “People Development Company”
When I had the chance to go back to Japan last October with Honsha, there was a big focus on what the former…
Value is Defined by the Customer (and not all Customers are the Same)
It's said in the Lean methodology that "value is defined by the customer."
Value can be defined as, in most…