I haven’t done a “Throwback Thursday” post in a while, but I’m going to do something similar here on a Monday. Exactly ten years ago today, l shared a post where I talked about leaving my employment with the Lean…
Scroll down for video, transcript, how to subscribe, and more My guest for Episode #407 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is Joy Mason, a Strategist, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur based in Indianapolis. She is President and Senior Business Strategist…
What You Might Have Missed If you missed it, check out this excellent webinar that was presented yesterday by Dider Rabino, of Value Capture, and Jen Ashley, of Sutter Health: Leading with Respect: Standard Work for Frontline Leaders You can…
My Favorite Mistake is a learning from mistakes podcast created for leaders who want to grow without blame. Each episode features honest conversations with business leaders reflecting on a professional mistake–and what they learned from it. The goal isn’t confession…
Coming soon…. a new business podcast series Host Mark Graban (author of books including Measures of Success and Practicing Lean) interviews business leaders who share reflections about their “favorite mistake.” Our greatest learnings come from our mistakes and failures. Some…
Thanks everybody for reading my blog here in 2020. I released 21 “Lean Blog Interviews” podcasts, up from 14 the same period last year (and two data points are not a trend!). I was also happy to continue the “Lean…
I wrote a blog post for KaiNexus that’s the first in a series that we’re going to run about “Opportunities for Improvement” in everyday situations like golfing, walking for exercise, getting take-out food… or my post about going to the…
Recently, I hosted this… COVID-19 Quiz Time: Test Your Knowledge and Learn Even More March 24 from 1:00 – 2:00 ET Previously, we’ve hosted “Ask Us Anything” sessions where people submitted questions to doctors about coronavirus and COVID-19. In this…
TL;DR: In a crisis, what leaders do matters more than what they say–and inconsistency at the top quietly undermines trust, safety, and compliance. I believe that leaders need to lead by example. This was true in my “Lean manufacturing” days…
Episode #361 of the podcast is admittedly not about Lean, but it’s an important topic that I think needs to be shared in these times. I’m sharing audio that came from a KaiNexus webinar yesterday that we called “Ask Docs…
tl;dr: Checklists don’t prevent mistakes unless people actually use them, and they work best in cultures where it’s safe to speak up. A missed step in a webinar setup shows how Andon-style intervention–someone noticing a problem and saying something–can quickly…
Recently, I stumbled across some video of me and Dr. Greg Jacobson giving a talk at a health system. I think it's from 2013. So, I'm sharing this as a "Throwback Thursday."
KaiNexus software has changed and evolved a lot in five years as the company has grown. Kaizen, or continuous improvement, principles and practices are timeless.