Did anybody see the new movie, the comedy “Horrible Bosses” this weekend? If so, leave a comment and let us know what you thought – should I see it next weekend or wait for home video? The trailer looks pretty…
I feel like a lazy blogger posting cartoons and links to videos, but this latest “Lean Laughs” cartoon from Pascal Dennis and the team at Lean Pathways had to be shared (with their permission). It’s a perfect illustration of how…
Thanks to those of you who sent me the link to this Washington Post article called “The Pain of Wrong Site Surgery.” The piece highlights how the patient safety battle has not yet been won and “some researchers and patient…
I’m a proud graduate of Northwestern University, industrial engineering class of 1995. Our ’95 commencement speaker was the newly installed president of the university… he delivered a pretty dry address and the students were pretty disappointed. That 1995 address was…
In today’s post, I’m happy to introduce Dr. Les Muda, the World’s First Lean Healthcare Comedian. First and perhaps the last. Dr. Muda sent me an audition tape after his experience at last week’s successful Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. As…
I stumbled across this site a few week ago and would have shared it for April Fools’ Day if I hadn’t presented a joke of my own, the A3 Sensei app. This site, ISSISSIPPI.org, purports to be a group called…
Fans of Bob Dylan and Mike Rother’s book Toyota Kata will appreciate this song especially:
Now actor Charlie Sheen has been all over the news lately, giving interviews to practically anyone with a microphone. This is the type of “news” I normally try to tune out, yet alone blog about. Somehow, he stumbled across my…
Friday, I blogged about a WIRED Magazine piece by Joel Johnson that was pretty disrespectful of manufacturing, in general, as he wrote that “every single manufacturing job ever” was “repetitive, exhausting, and [an] alienating workplace over which you have no…
I’m really thankful for an attendee in a training workshop for sharing this video as an example of traditional “non-Lean” attitudes and practices that she saw in her hospital. It’s a clip from the movie “Babar – King Of The…
Absolutely hilarious… last Thursday’s “30 Rock” features Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) talking about how he’s a: “Six Sigma Black Belt Ultra… with the groin branding to prove it.” To which, the new boss from their new owner Kabletown asks, “What’s…
Following up on yesterday’s found parody of the show The Office… As if we needed any proof that Dwight K. Schrute is NOT a “Lean Thinker,” check out this short video clip I saw the other night: