GM Shrinking, Laying Off People, Shutting Down Factories, and Cutting Costs…
I take no joy in the troubles of any automaker, be it Tesla, Nissan, GM or any others over time.
Of course,…
Browsing Tag
GM
Part 2: 20 Years Ago at GM, the Quality Death Spiral Continues… With More…
Recently, I blogged about a quality catastrophe that I lived through at GM just over 20 years ago, at the…
20+ Years Ago at GM: The Quality Death Spiral of Bad Management & Blaming…
My first job out of college was as an Industrial Engineer at the General Motors Livonia Engine Plant. Blogging…
My Talk in Vegas: Leadership Lessons from Statistics and Psychology How to help…
Today, I’m giving a keynote talk at the Lean & Six Sigma World Conference being held in Las Vegas. I don’t…
Managers Must Help The People They Supervise Otherwise, what's the path to getting…
Last week, a nurse manager downloaded the free first chapter of my book Lean Hospitals and wrote this message in…
Lessons from the NUMMI 10th Anniversary Book Published in 1994 "Lean" does not…
I did manage to buy a book that was published by NUMMI to celebrate their 10th anniversary. "10 Years of Quality…
Did Toyota’s #Lean Mindsets & Practices Really Leave the (Now) Tesla…
Tesla builds cars in what used to be the NUMMI factory, a joint venture between Toyota and GM (which meant it was…
Learning & Emulating Without Copying Blindly from Duke Hoops, Toyota, or…
While I'm writing here about Northwestern men's basketball learning from Duke (without copying everything), the…
2nd Post for the Deming Institute Blog: The Failed “Livonia…
Yesterday, the W. Edwards Deming Institute published the second in my series of three posts for them: "The Failure…
My Post for the Deming Institute Blog: Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important…
I'm extremely honored that The W. Edwards Deming Institute published my first blog post in a series of three that…
“The reign of the king-leader is gone” at GM? What about healthcare?
I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover…
Part 2: More From the Original 1984 NUMMI Team Member Handbook: Unions, Teams,…
Here's Part 2 of a post about the original NUMMI Team Member Handbook from 1984 (see Part 1 here).
This, and…
Highlights from the Original 1984 NUMMI Team Member Handbook, Part 1
I recently wrote about my exploration of the collected papers of the late Don Ephlin, a UAW senior leader and a…
Repeating the Same #Lean Mistakes Over and Over? Why?
Recently, when I posted a bit from the old 1984 NUMMI Team Member Handbook (more still to come on that), it allowed…
Coming Soon: A Fresh Look at Some Old GM & NUMMI Documents About Lean, Japan,…
When I was a graduate student at the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, one of our visiting professors was…
Podcast #259 – Steve Bera, Reflections on NUMMI and #Lean, Part 2
Today's episode #259 is Part 2 of a discussion I started with Steve Bera in episode #256. Steve was one of the…
Podcast #256 – Steve Bera, Reflections on NUMMI and #Lean, Part 1
I'm really excited to have Steve Bera as my guest for episode #256 of the podcast. I read about him as he was…
Key Tweets from @MarkGraban – Week of June 13, 2016: Lean Healthcare…
Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a weekly post that summarizes some of my tweets (or retweets) from…