Tag: Mistake-Proofing

My new book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, is still only in a draft state before final...

I am saddened to hear of the death of Ritsuo Shingo (1947-2023), as announced by the Shingo Institute. He was the son of Shigeo...

Chapter 4 in my book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation is about preventing mistakes -- mistake-proofing. In the...

For a long time, it's bothered me that organizations typically react to a mistake with punishment. This is even more annoying when the phrase...

My guest for Episode #462 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Professor John Grout, the former dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College...

This week's episode of the My Favorite Mistake podcast has a guest and a conversation that will be very directly relevant to you as...

This is an article that I originally published on LinkedIn back in 2015. Has the error proofing been improved since then, between credit card...

I've given a few presentations about Lean and mass vaccination clinics, based on my visits (as a guest observer / learner and as somebody...

Before I get into this post, I want to also point you to another post that I wrote for the Value Capture blog: Salem Health...

During this "let's try to get people vaccinated" phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost every article that I've seen about the vaccine and its...

I can't believe that I'm once again writing about this. But, I saw in the news that ANOTHER house was mistakenly demolished in the...

Many of you have asked if I'm at the AME Conference this week in Chicago. I am not, as I had a previous invitation...