Deming on Education
If there was any value to the Industry Week commentary that tried to link Deming and Obama, it was that it prompted me to re-read some of Deming’s work, namely the “management of people” chapter from The New Economics. There’s…
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Ohio Manufacturing Jobs & Presidential Politics
Politics | NAFTA bashing popular, but is it justified? | Seattle Times Newspaper Google News Search At the risk of stirring an unmanageable political debate (please keep the discussion in line with the “respect for people” principle and avoid name…
Jeffrey Liker on Toyota Culture and the Human Side of the Toyota Way (Part 1)
Jeffrey Liker explains why Toyota’s success is rooted in culture, leadership, and deep respect for people–not Lean tools. This episode explores the human systems behind the Toyota Way and why real Lean transformation takes years, not days. Here is LeanBlog…
Deming Endorses Obama (?)
Breaking: Deming Endorses Obama – IndustryWeek Forums A few people have emailed me about this and it’s easier for me to comment here than it is to register for the IW forums. An interesting idea is posed by Brad Kenney:…
Lean Blog Downtime Report and Resolution
Updated: I’m back up and running (almost) as normal as of 10:10 EST. Sorry for any inconvenience. A bit of reflection on the whole thing coming tomorrow. My blog time today was consumed with tech troubleshooting, unfortunately. Is anyone having…
Lean Meets Green at Subaru
By Jason Turgeon: Introductions: I’m Jason Turgeon, the newest addition to the Lean Blog team. Mark and I have had an email dialog going for a few months about the intersection of green and lean, and he’s invited me to…
A Lean Lab Example
A tour of a LEAN-inspired clinical laboratory | DailyKaizen Here’s a nice story by Dr. Ted Eytan about a lab that a colleague of mine worked with in their Lean efforts. It is actually a lab that is mentioned briefly…
DFW Lean Blog Event March 15
I’m having a local, informal “Lean Lunch” event in Southlake TX, Saturday March 15 at noon. It’s a gathering of some Lean folks from different companies who I’ve met through the blog. If you’re in town and interested in attending,…
A Bigger Job for ThedaCare’s Toussaint
Appleton Post-Crescent: Your Fox Cities News Source – ThedaCare CEO takes new job ThedaCare is one of the recognized leaders in the use of Lean and the Toyota Production System in hospitals. He has resigned as CEO of the health…
My Book is Available for Pre-Order
Productivity Press – Lean Hospitals This was pretty exciting to discover… my book (“Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction”) is out there on the publisher website as well as amazon.com (my publisher would certainly prefer that you…
Why is "Respect for People" missing so often?
I got a couple of reader emails last week that prompted me to think about Lean and the Toyota Way principle of “respect for people.” Whether it’s a supposedly “Lean” environment or not, why is true “respect” so often missing?…
A Lean Guy Reads the WSJ
A few short thoughts from today’s WSJ:‘Headwind’ Blows As Top Executives Navigate Trouble – WSJ.com As I was reading the first article, above, about executives blaming “headwinds” and macroeconomic problems for business woes, I thought, “Sure, there are economic problems,…