Tag: Leadership

Podcast #178 – Drew Greenblatt, President of Marlin Wire on Lean...

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Listen Joining me for Podcast #178 is Drew Greenblatt, President and Owner of Marlin Steel Wire Products, a manufacturing company based in Baltimore. I was...

Nice Toyota Production System Intro Video from the UK

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A Toyota employee, pictured at left, pulls an andon cord in a video shared by Toyota UK:  Factory to Forecourt - Introduction to the...

Have Staff Really Lost Sight of the Patient Experience?

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Dr. Delos ("Toby") Cosgrove, President and CEO of the famed Cleveland Clinic, wrote an article on LinkedIn recently: "Patient Experience: Time for Hospitals to...

Toyota’s Jamie Bonini on Organizational Culture

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Last week at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I really enjoyed the presentation by Jamie Bonini,  General Manager of the  Toyota Production System Support...

Podcast #177 – Bob Emiliani, Nobody Is Exempt From Improvement, Lean...

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Listen My guest for Podcast #177 is a returning guest, Bob Emiliani. In this episode, we're talking about one of his latest eBooks: Nobody Is...

Notes from Paul O’Neill Speaking at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit

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It was a real thrill to be able to meet Paul O'Neill in person yesterday at the Summit  (he was my guest for Podcast...

Dr. Deming’s “Role of a Manager of People”

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Dr. W. Edwards Deming's last book was The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education. In Chapter 5, Deming writes, "Transformation in any organization will...

Notes and References from my #LKNA13 Talk on Lean Healthcare

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I had a chance to attend the Lean Kanban North America conference this week. It was a different "tribe" to be a part of,...

Weekend Fun: “The Onion” on a Really Subtle Bad Boss

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It's been a crazy week, so I was in the mood for a good chuckle... and the fake news site "The Onion" delivered in...

AME Spring Conference: Art Byrne

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Like yesterday's "live blog" post about the Autoliv talk, I also wrote this post as Art Byrne talked, but held it for publication today....

Podcast #172 – Jerry Bussell, Anatomy of a Lean Leader and...

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Joining me for episode #172 is Jerry Bussell, previously a guest on episode #137. Today, we're talking about his recent book, Anatomy of a...

Podcast #169 – Len Berry, PhD on “The Promise of Lean...

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Joining me for Episode #169 is Leonard L. Berry, PhD,  Distinguished Professor of Marketing in the  Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. We...
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