LEAN.org – Lean Enterprise Institute John Shook is one of my favorite people in the Lean world. I’ve learned more about Toyota-style leadership from him than anyone else (the learning-to-time-exposed-to-John ratio is very, very high). John has a new book…
Today’s post is by a new contributor — but someone who isn’t a new name if you’ve been a listener to the LeanBlog Podcast. I’m happy to have Jim post here and I’m hoping he’ll contribute more in the future.…
Bedside Manner: Advocating for a Relative in the Hospital (WSJ) WSJ Health Blog (free): Five Tips for Helping a Family Member in the Hospital I’ve written before about my questions of why so many hospitals abdicate their leadership responsibility for…
With election day tomorrow (find your voting location here), I’m reminded of a radio ad I heard a while back and never blogged about. The ad promoted some website where you could record a 30 second message to be sent…
On this blog, there have been several discussions and posts about jobs going overseas, not so much from a protectionist and politics standpoint, but more about the impact on your value stream. Is it shortsighted? Do our cost systems tell…
In my travels, I see a lot of what you might call “superficial Lean,” where an organization has tried to implement a Lean tool. I won’t go as far as to call it “L.A.M.E.” (Lean as Misguidedly Executed) because the…
The Dark Report presents a new audio conference on November 13, 2008… For those of you in hospital labs (not sure what percentage of my readership falls into that category), you might be interested in the following upcoming audio conference…
The Weekend Interview – WSJ.com Good interview with the CEO of FedEx, Fred Smith. If you click on the link above, be warned there’s some political discussion (which I know many of you might be sick of at this point).…
Bold Lentil: Lean Blogging: Comments as Muda? The blog I’ve linked to above posed a theory that you could apply “Lean Manufacturing” to the practice of blogging. I’d have to think about that. I do try to “level load” my…
Kevin Meyer, over at Evolving Excellence, recently wrote a good piece on “endorsing” a U.S. presidential candidate. Today, I’m technically Constitution-eligible to be President of the United States, as I’m now 35 years young. However, I’m not nominating myself to…
Moonlighting county docs raise questions :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: The Watchdogs OK, this isn’t strictly a Lean issue, but this caught my eye in the paper near where I’m working. Regarding county doctors who work in the E.R. (think the…
Downturn Forces Cutbacks Big and Small – WSJ.com There’s a lot of town during any downturn about cutting costs in businesses or organizations. Often, the talk is about “cutting heads” — a cruel way of talking about firing people. Or,…
