Tag: Dan Pink

News, articles, books, podcasts, and videos about how to make the workplace better. This Operational Excellence Mixtape underscores a simple but often-missed point: new technologies...

This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape reflects on the systems, leadership, and mindsets required for lasting improvement. From honoring Dr. Lucian Leape's...

Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...

Congratulations to my podcast(s) guests who were named to the Thinkers50 list of influential management thinkers! I am thrilled to extend my heartiest congratulations to...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! News, blogs, articles, resources,...

Long-time listeners of my Lean Blog Interviews podcast will remember my interview with the NY Times best-selling author Daniel H. Pink back in 2010: https://www.leanblog.org/2010/12/podcast-107-daniel-h-pink-lean-and-drive/ Back...

In this post, I look at the impact (or lack thereof) of targets, rankings, and incentives, when it comes to safe driving or PCI (angioplasty) procedures in a hospital cath lab. Are we improving? How do we know? How do we improve?

Dr. W. Edwards Deming used to warn against replacing intrinsic motivation with extrinsic rewards and incentives. Brian Joiner (author of Fourth Generation Management), who worked...

The price paid for most management consulting work is based on either a daily rate or some variation of a flat-rate fee based on...

TL;DR: W. Edwards Deming taught that organizations don't need to motivate people--they need to stop demotivating them. Practices like rankings, merit pay, numerical targets...

As Mark Graban stated in a recent post, "People fear or assume that a factory is...mindless, monotonous, repetitive..."  These sentiments may come from observation...