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.

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...

Did Lucian Leape Criticize Lean Healthcare — or Lean Done Wrong?

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TL;DR: Patient safety leader Lucian Leape's critique appears less about Lean itself and more about "L.A.M.E."--Lean As Misguidedly Executed. True Lean in healthcare prioritizes...

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: Lessons from Daniel Pink, Deming, and...

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What really motivates people to improve their work--especially in healthcare and other complex environments? Drawing on Daniel Pink's Drive, Dr. W. Edwards Deming's teachings,...

Dr. Deming – “More Relevant Than Ever”

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Being a huge fan of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, especially so some 17 years after his death, I like any article that concludes with...

Dr. Don Berwick, Supporter of Lean Healthcare, to be New Obama...

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Dr. Donald Berwick (bio), founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has reportedly named by President Obama to head Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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