Tag: Leadership

Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 8, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "Imagine walking into a restaurant and being seated. Sometime after your meal, you receive the check and find an...

Podcast #350 — Tim Turner – Building Lexus, Leaving Toyota, and...

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My guest today is Tim Turner, who joined us previously in 2010 for episode #90. Tim was the lead author for a book called One...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 25, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients If you set a target without providing a clear path on how you want it achieved, and then punish staff when they fail...

A Brief Summary of My First Trip to Brazil: Beef, Emojis,...

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I got back Sunday morning from my first trip to Brazil. I had a great time last week as a guest of a company...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 11, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Transformation and quality improvement is rarely sustained without changing management behaviours and management systems. John Toussaint writes about the challenges...

A Podcast Preview of Paul Wainwright’s Webinar on “Positive Deviance”

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On October 15th, I hosted the latest in our KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinar series. I'm really happy that the presenter was Paul Wainright, as...

Jess Orr on What She Learned by Leaving Toyota

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Last week was our fifth annual KaiNexus User Conference (or "KaiNexicon" as we now call it). One of our keynote speakers was Jess Orr, a...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 27, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Globally, at least 5 patients die every minute due to unsafe care.  For Patient Safety Week, the World Health Organization...

Podcast #349 — John Dyer, “The Facade of Excellence”

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My guest for episode #349 is John Dyer, president of his consulting firm, John Dyer & Associates, Inc., and author of the new book, The...

The “Smart Loves Problems” TV Ad — But What Does Fear...

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This ad caught my attention while watching a little bit of Monday Night Football this week. It's an IBM ad titled "Smart Loves Problems." The ad's...

Podcast #348 — Cinnamon Dixon, Tiered Huddles at Cleveland Clinic

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Our guest today for Episode 348 is Cinnamon Dixon, Director Of Continuous Improvement at Cleveland Clinic. I interviewed her for the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 13, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Canadian healthcare policy limits true innovation by clinging to outdated thinking developed in times of much slower change and...
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