Tag: Leadership

My guest for episode #224 of my podcast is a returning guest, Mike Grogan. About two years ago, we talked about his Lean work...

Wednesday was the first day of the 6th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, being held this year in Addison (Dallas), Texas. I'm here and this...

It's been just about 18 years since I was leaving GM to start the master's program at MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing program (now called...

Here's my latest post for LinkedIn through their "Influencers" series. It might be old hat to readers of this blog, but I hope what...

In my first post about the on-site Kaizen learning experience at Franciscan St. Francis Health, an event I came to call "Kaizen Live," I...

Following up on yesterday's post on seemingly successful experiments with ACOs, here's another article, from HBR, on "safety huddles" in healthcare: "How Every Hospital Should Start...

As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs (which makes my Mac run faster) and I'll do that...

I have been going through some old papers recently and I found two sheets of paper with hand-written thoughts or "truisms" that I had scribbled...

View the post that inspired this "listicle." Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to...

Listen Today's guest is Michael Ballé, an author of many novels about Lean management, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. He joins us for this episode...

Tomorrow afternoon, I'm doing two different webinars that I hope you'll want to sign up for. Even if you can't attend live, I'd encourage you...

Note: Today is the fifth anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Russell Maroni's journal from his volunteer work there, including some Lean concepts he employed,...