Tag: Leadership

When I talk to people about the Kaizen approach to continuous improvement, with my consulting hat on or in my role with KaiNexus, I...

Saturday at the Society for Health Systems conference, included an excellent keynote address from Roger Gerard, from the ThedaCare health system, co-author with Dr....

One of the more popular email signature quotes that I see (at least amongst Lean practitioners) is this priceless gem from Dr. W. Edwards...

Here is a short video clip from 2009... Dr. John Toussaint talking about the need to shift away from "White Coat Leadership" to Lean...

I've been talking to a lot of healthcare organizations about Kaizen and continuous improvement. There are many organizations embracing the methods that Joe Swartz...

My reader survey (with prizes) is still open through Friday.   I recently stumbled across the movie Meet the Fockers  on TV recently and was...

Don't forget my reader survey - share your feedback and have a chance at some great prizes. In November, I blogged about a panel at...

As he mentioned on his blog, John Toussaint has co-authored a piece that was published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings: "The Promise of Lean in...

I guess that, considering last year's blog post, this Lean thinker couldn't really root for Notre Dame and Coach Brian Kelly Monday night in...

This week, I was able to drop by the annual Lab Quality Confab event since it was being held in here in San Antonio....

As I started writing about yesterday in Part 1, I recently viewed a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995.  See this...

A few years ago, there was a lot of buzz about how a board should evaluate a potential job candidate by seeing how they...