Tag: Deming

W. Edwards Deming: Leadership, Quality, and Continuous Improvement

W. Edwards Deming’s ideas about leadership, systems, variation, and psychology continue to shape how organizations pursue quality and improvement. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections exploring Deming’s teachings—and how they apply to Lean, healthcare, management, and continuous improvement today. Many of these posts challenge common misinterpretations of Deming’s work, emphasizing that quality cannot be delegated and that improvement starts with leadership.

Two Kinds of Mistakes–and the Wisdom of Shewhart, 100 Years Later

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Recently, I saw someone reference a chapter from Dr. W. Edwards Deming's book Out of the Crisis on LinkedIn--Chapter 11, titled "Common Causes and...

Red Bead Game Reflections: Leadership Lessons from Atlanta to Australia

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TL;DR: The Red Bead Game shows--everywhere in the world--that blaming people for random variation is ineffective. Only system change drives improvement. So far in 2025,...

From Noise to Knowledge: Embracing Data-Driven Leadership – Christopher R. Chapman

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #525 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Christopher R. Chapman. He's...

John Willis on Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge in IT and...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #524 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is John Willis, an accomplished...

Registration Open Now! My Workshop in Cincinnati

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Note: The original workshop concept had to be scrubbed because Chris Chapman had to back out. But Mark Graban will now be doing a...

Join Me at HSPI 2025: Red Beads, Lean Leadership, and Smarter...

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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be presenting a 90-minute "intensive" session at the 2025 Health Systems Process Improvement (HSPI) conference, organized by the...

From Noise to Clarity: How KaiNexus Learned to Focus on What...

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KaiNexus uses Process Behavior Charts and Deming's principles to separate signal from noise, helping leaders avoid reactive decisions and focus on improvements that truly...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 13, 2024

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

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 29, 2024

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

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 15, 2024

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

Halloween, Dr. Deming, and Eliminating the Fear Factor at Work

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As we celebrate Halloween--a season for all things spooky--it's a good time to reflect on a different kind of fear that can haunt our...

Yes! Another Lean Book Emphasizes Psychological Safety’s Importance

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TL;DR: A newly released Lean book from the Lean Enterprise Institute reinforces what Toyota, Deming, and Lean leaders have long known: psychological safety is...
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