Tag: Lean Hospitals

Lean Hospitals: Leadership, Learning, and Better Healthcare Systems

Lean Hospitals is about improving patient care, staff well-being, safety, and flow by fixing systems—not blaming people or cutting costs at any price. These posts explore Lean healthcare as a management and leadership system grounded in respect for people, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

Drawing from hospitals, health systems, and frontline clinical work, this archive reflects the core ideas from Lean Hospitals: improvement without layoffs, learning from mistakes, daily problem solving, and leadership behaviors that make sustainable improvement possible in healthcare.

“Lean Hospitals” Wins Prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award

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Great news! This is quite an honor and I'm very excited. My book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction has been awarded...

Review of My Book in the Stiles Associates Newsletter

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Stiles Associates, LLC - Lean Agile DigestStiles Associates is a recruiting/placement firm that focuses on Lean talent and positions. They have posted a review...

Management "Moonshots." Really?

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by Dan MarkovitzGary Hamel's Management 2.0 blog at WSJ.com features his ideas for "Management Moonshots" -- 25 ambitious and radical ideas that will significantly...

Interview with Productivity Press

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Lean Insider: Book Talk: Lean HospitalsHere's a quick link to an interview that Ralph Bernstein, of the Lean Insider blog at Productivity Press, conducted...

Lean Healthcare Around the World

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Hello from Connecticut.... it's always fascinating to me to see the spread of Lean healthcare around the world. When I attended the Lean Enterprise...

Donations to the Josie King Foundation

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As some of you might remember, I was offering autographed versions of my book, Lean Hospitals, with proceeds going to the Josie King Foundation,...

Video Interview with Quality Digest Magazine

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I was interviewed recently by Quality Digest about my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction (first edition). The video appears on their...

A Review of "Lean Hospitals"

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Training Within Industry - TWI Blog: Lean Book Review: Lean Hospitals by Mark GrabanBryan Lund, over at the TWI Blog has written a very...

Lean is More than a Toolkit

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I had a great conversation with a fellow healthcare lean thinker the other day. She shared my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety,...

The Full Q&A at Gemba Pantarei

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Thanks again to Jon Miller for his great questions and for hosting the Q&A, all three parts.Here are links:Part 1 | ...

A Dutch Review of "Lean Hospitals" (and Part 2 of Q&A)

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Centre of Excellence for Care and Cure - Lean HospitalsI apologize if this is too self reverential, but it always fascinates me to see...

Mark’s Q&A With Jon Miller, Part 1

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Lean Manufacturing Blog. Kaizen Articles and Advice | Gemba Panta Rei Jon Miller, the host of the Gemba Pantarei Blog, is kind enough to be...
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