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You Can’t Force Anyone to Change Their Minds or Actions

Mark Graban Dec 2, 2015 12
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As I've worked with hospital and healthcare people over the past ten years, one personal benefit to me has been…

An American ED Doc in New Zealand – Reflections on Pushback and Learning

Mark Graban Jan 31, 2011 5
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Mark's note: Today's guest post is from Dr. Mark Jaben, an American doctor who worked in New Zealand, leading to…

Management Improvement Carnival #111

Mark Graban Oct 1, 2010 1
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Again, I'm very happy to host the Carnival for  John Hunter and his  Curious Cat blog. My job here is to share some…

How Can We Prevent This Medical Error?

Mark Graban Aug 31, 2010 14
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A number of readers emailed me a link to this New York Times article: "U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill…

Detroit Medical Center Radio Ad – Selling Quality and Patient Safety

Mark Graban May 7, 2009 6
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Thanks to XM Radio, I was able to listen to Sunday's Detroit Red Wings playoff game and the WJR radio broadcast…

Internal Competition Hurts Teamwork? Duh!

Mark Graban Sep 17, 2008 1
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Retailers Reprogram Workers In Efficiency Push - WSJ.comThis is more of a Deming philosophy article than a "Lean…

Practicing the "Basics of Management"

Mark Graban Sep 4, 2007 0
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By Bryan Lund, guest contributor to the Lean Blog:I posted the following question on LinkedIn.com as Mark noted in…

"5 Whys" Survey Results: Demographic Breakdown (Q1)

Mark Graban Aug 29, 2007 2
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I took another look at the "lean obstacles" survey questions, but this time breaking it down by some key…

"5 Whys" Survey Results, Part 2

Mark Graban Aug 28, 2007 0
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Question 2 in the Lean Blog survey about Lean obstacles took the same choices as Question 1 and forced the…

"5 Whys" Survey Results, Part 1

Mark Graban Aug 27, 2007 6
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You might recall the annual Lean Enterprise Institute survey that included a question about obstacles to Lean…

LEI Survey on Lean Challenges

Mark Graban Oct 1, 2006 2
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lean enterprise institute survey (Google cache HTML)Click here for Word Doc versionI don't recall seeing this…
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