Books – One Injury, 10 Countries – A Journey in Health Care – Review – NYTimes.com I think this book,The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, will go into the “to read” queue.…
Michael Lewis on A.I.G. | vanityfair.com I’ve been a big fan of Michael Lewis and his writing since reading “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” years ago. Great book and my first introduction to the Red Sox’s great…
I’m a big Mike Judge fan, dating back to “Office Space” (OK, and back to Beavis and Butthead, even, I’ll admit). His sort of “sequel” to Office Space, “Extract,” is set in a factory. We don’t get too many movies…
From Lehman’s Wreckage, New Lives – WSJ.com: Disgraced Lehman CEO Dick Fuld says in this WSJ piece: “‘I spent too much time out of the office with clients and trusted other people to manage the risk,’ he told employees of…
If you had been following Scott McDuffee’s weekly “Lean Leap to Healthcare” posts that documented his attempts to transition from “lean manufacturing” into “lean healthcare,” you might wonder where he went. I’m hoping Scott will do another “close the loop”…
Mark’s note: I’m happy to introduce a new guest blogger, Liz Guthridge. She is very active on Twitter and does a lot to educate people about Lean in area we could probably all (myself included!) use some help in –…
This blog post started as a parenthetical comment about cycle time in my last blog post from this morning. But the parenthetical grew out of control and I thought it would only confuse things in that post. So, hopefully, it’s…
Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple’s “App Store” for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I’ve been a pretty happy iPhone user for the past three months after switching over from BlackBerry). I’m going to try to…
Giant video board in new Cowboys stadium causes problems for Titans punter – The Huddle – USATODAY.com Are you ready for some football???? OK, so nobody ever accused Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being a lean thinker… but did…
Following up on Part 1 of my Reader Survey reflection exercise, here is Part 2. Thanks for the 113 survey responses and for the time you took to give free-form feedback. I won’t share the generally positive comments and praise…
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He has a new book (published by LEI, my employer), recently published, called “The Lean Manager.” Here…
Yesterday’s WSJ front page headline caught my eye, as a frequent Starbucks customer and obvious Lean zealot: Latest Starbucks Buzzword: ‘Lean’ Japanese Techniques The headline is full bodied and complex brew that gives us a lot to chew on before…