Tag: Deming

Dr. Brent James at the Shingo Conference, Part 2 – His...

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Last week, I published Part 1 of my notes about a breakfast talk by Dr. Brent James at the Shingo Prize Conference. https://www.leanblog.org/2010/05/notes-from-dr-brent-james-at-the-shingo-prize-part-1/ One of the...

Notes from Dr. Brent James Teaching at the Shingo Prize Conference...

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At last week's Shingo Prize conference, I was very excited to meet Dr. Stephen Covey (my podcast is here), but I was just as...

New Book Gives Negative Review to Performance Reviews

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Hat tip to the WSJ for their review of the new book Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start...

Ships Passing in the Night – China Builds U.S. Factories

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In an era where it was a "no brainer" to move factories to China, chasing cheap labor, the Lean world has often spoken out...

Guest Post: Deming, Lean, and Healthcare Transformation

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Mark's note: I'm happy to welcome a relatively new friend,  Mike Stoecklein, as a guest author here on my Lean Blog. We have shared...

Read this Book – But Don’t Copy ThedaCare

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Due out in June is a book that I think will be an important one for the Lean Healthcare movement. That book is about...

Liveblogging the Quaid Patient Safety Documentary

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I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others --   "Chasing Zero: Winning the...

LeanBlog.org Site Problems

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Dear readers - as you may have noticed, my site has been suffering from intermittent downtime, due to problems with the shared database server...

What Makes You Want to Do Better?

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Recently, I was able to visit VIBCO, a Lean manufacturing company in Rhode Island. Company President Karl Wadensten is the host of "The Lean...

Lucian Leape Loathes Lean or “L.A.M.E.”?

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Noted patient safety expert Dr. Lucian Leape spoke out recently about medical school culture being a root cause of poor quality (see my blog...

Lessons from a “Like Lean” Millionaire

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Listen to my podcast with Nick One of my blog themes is the idea of "Like Lean" - practices that seem very much like the...

Intrinsic Motivation in Lean Leadership: Unpacking Daniel Pink’s TED Talk on...

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I have been a big fan of the author Daniel Pink since I heard about his most recent book Drive: The Surprising Truth About...
"The Mistakes That Make Us" Receives the Shingo Award!Learn More
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