Tag: Funny

Lately, I've been enjoying the creativity of those AI-generated "action figure career meme" images floating around social media. That got me thinking... what would...

In workplaces and beyond, mistakes are inevitable. The way we handle them, however, makes all the difference. A New Yorker cartoon I recently came...

Does jargon--or Japanese terms like 'Hoshin Kanri'--get in the way of clear communication in your organization? It reminds me of the classic Saturday Night Live...

Here's a musical holiday treat for my regular Lean Blog readers and podcast listeners, a song parody, initially released in 2009, and then remastered...

As a Throwback Thursday, I'm sharing this webinar that I did back in 2012, as hosted by Karen Martin: https://www.leanblog.org/2013/02/healthcare-kaizen-suggestion-box-dead On this theme of "The Suggestion...

2024 Update: A new April Fool's Post for KaiNexus... or is it? The Rediscovered Origins of KaiNexus: A 1980s Video Game The Full Collection of Previous...

I bet many of you know the famous "Chocolate Factory" scene from the TV classic "I Love Lucy." Even if you're too young to...

I've updated and am republishing an old 2005 blog post that I wrote about a former GM assembly worker, Ben Hamper, who has some...

I love the show "Portlandia" and I also love the "Toast Kaizen" video. I bet the latter is more well known and is more...

Here's the latest cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist and medical assistant, Carrie Schurman (see past cartoons). You can find her on Twitter as @carrieschurman. The idea for this cartoon came from Maggie Millard, the director of marketing at KaiNexus. Maggie has learned about Process Behavior Charts from me and some of the stories are incorporated into my book Measures of Success.  What does this "out of control chart" look like and why did it make me chuckle?

Tonight is the start of the NFL Draft, which almost gets as much coverage nowadays as a Presidential election. Can you imagine if CNBC and other TV channels spent as much time focusing on which Lean Healthcare prospects would be "drafted" from our leading universities and medical schools? Here is our exclusive and official Lean Blog mock draft, featuring picks from our Lean Healthcare draft expert, Mel Kaizen, Jr.

I sometimes try to share some light or funny on Fridays to get into the weekend with a laugh. I want to thank @BrianSJ on Twitter for his tweet pointing me to a hilarious video from a British TV show "That Mitchell and Webb Look."