I wanted to share a blog post that I wrote for the Value Capture Blog: The Connections Between Joy in Work and Habitual Excellence In the post, I share notes from a presentation that Rich gave at the Michigan Lean…
Gerald Harris spent 25 years leading lean transformations in automotive manufacturing before shifting into healthcare consulting, and his origin story starts with a Toyota supplier in crisis that went from shipping 250 door sets per shift to 2,400. In this…
Any process should make defects visible when it can’t prevent them outright. A Krispy Kreme donut line shows the principle better than most factory floors. Here’s a photo I took a few years ago. What jumps out at you? For…
Some episodes of “My Favorite Mistake” get into topics that are pretty directly related to Lean, or at least they’re Lean adjacent. Last week’s episode with Ken Segel, CEO of the firm Value Capture (a firm I’m affiliated with), is…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for Episode #435 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Sunil Khushalani, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in Addiction Psychiatry, and Antonio DePaolo, PhD, a transformation executive and a Baldrige…
Recently, I hosted and moderated a presentation / panel discussion webinar with a team from Legacy Health, a health system that’s based in Oregon. Their CEO, Kathryn Correia, by the way, is a former ThedaCare leader who is a great…
As part of my affiliation with the firm Value Capture, I’ve been writing on their blog. Here are some recent posts of mine that you might find interesting: Should Daily Huddles Be Held Every Single Day in Healthcare Settings? Do…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… there’s always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! News, blogs, articles, resources, and links about creating value, continuous improvement, innovation, and leadership. Healthcare – Creating Value for…
Eight years ago today, I published a piece originally on LinkedIn as part of their “Influencers” series: Rather than Blaming Employees, Managers Must Take Responsibility for Problems – in a Taco Joint, a Hospital, or a Factory Here is the…
Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more During our summer hiatus from releasing new podcast episodes, we’re looking back at previous episodes of the podcast. Today, sadly, we’re taking a look back at guests from the past 15…
I’m often reminded of what the late Peter Scholtes would write or say (often repeated by W. Edwards Deming), where he basically said there are three things that can happen when there’s pressure to meet a goal or target: Distort…
You might not be a regular listener of the Habitual Excellence podcast, presented by Value Capture (and hosted by me). I hope you are… or will be. I realize I pump out a lot of podcasts. Our most recent episode…
