Leadership

This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate…

I believe that leaders need to lead by example. This was true in my "Lean manufacturing" days when a good plant…

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions…

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability…

Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly…

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "We have a good people in a bad system".  Here's an …

Thanks to Sara Thompson and Catalysis Inc. for asking me to write a blog post for them. If we can go "Beyond…

I think that working to reduce patient harm (to improve patient safety) is one of the most important (and most…

As I blogged about this morning, don't forget that you can get a FREE Kindle copy of Practicing Lean today…

The theme for the next couple of days on the blog is patient safety and the idea of "psychological safety" for…

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve.…

The other day, I stumbled across an old article that I remember, as it was published in the Wall Street Journal in…

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal…