Weekend Fun: LeanMemes.com #LeanMeme Contest Winners
When I kicked off the “Lean Memes” contest last month, I had no idea what I was starting… I figured I’d get a handful of entries. Well, I got well over 100 from a number of people, including 5 or…
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Should Have a Question Mark: Inc’s “The Leanest Startup?”
Inc. Magazine didn’t have the question mark in the headline, but I think it should be there. Much as the WSJ often just gets it way wrong about Lean, Inc. follows up it’s earlier butchering of “The Lean Startup” methodology…
“Blame & Shame” is Shameful
Many leaders in healthcare (including John Toussaint, Paul Levy, and others) are working to eliminate the “name, blame, and shame” culture that often exists in hospitals. This push (in my mind) started with W. Edwards Deming, who taught that 94%…
Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 2
Following up on my notes from Day 1, here are some notes and key points from Day 2 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. It was great to meet and get reacquainted with so many blog and book readers. It’s…
The More Sophisticated Brains – Robots or Employees?
Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye: “The Robots Are Coming to Hospitals: A New Breed of Blue-Collar Robots is Handling the Dirty Work, Transporting Linens and Laundry.” My immediate short response was to tweet…
Today Would Have Been Taiichi Ohno’s 100th Birthday
Hat tip to John Shook and the Lean Enterprise Institute for pointing this out via his email newsletter — today would have been the 100th birthday of Taiichi Ohno, usually credited as one of the creators of the Toyota Production…
#Lean Blog Updates: 7 Years of Blogging, eBook & Podcasts on Stitcher
Here are a few updates about my blog and my podcasts. For one, I’ve now been blogging for seven years now. I’ll write a blog post soon with my reflections on the anniversary/birthday of my blog. The other updates: My…
Updated: 2011’s Best “Lean Blog” Posts are Being Published as an e-Book
Updated (12/23): Based on the positive response I received, I decided to move forward with an eBook through LeanPub. It’s being published incrementally, with some experimental pricing. If you buy early, you get a lower price (but with free updates…
Parallels Between Lean Startups and Lean Publishing
Over the holidays, as I’m experimenting with an eBook of 2011 Lean Blog posts (on sale now), I’ve been giving a lot of feedback to Peter and Scott from LeanPub, the site I’m using to compile and publish the eBook.…
“Best of” eBooks
Click to buy via LeanPub. Available in PDF format, as well as .mobi (manual install to your Kindle) or .epub (for other devices). For the first time, I’m publishing a compilation of the best posts from 2011 into…
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #150
The Management Improvement Carnival was started by my friend and fellow LeanDaily blogger John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. My job here is to share some noteworthy and thought provoking posts from the past few weeks from…
Analogy from “The Lean Startup” for any Lean Journey?
As I’m reading the new book by Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, I’m reading it with an eye for concepts that can be applied more broadly than traditional startup…