Tag: NYTimes

Book to Read: "The Healing of America"

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Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.comI think this book,The Healing of America: A Global...

‘Takt Time’ for Apple’s App Store and for Healthcare

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Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple's "App Store" for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I've been a pretty happy iPhone...

Denver Health’s CEO Spreading the Word about Lean

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Checking In With Denver Health CEO Patricia Gabow On A "Model" Health Care System - Kaiser Health News Dr. Patty Gabow has been one of...

Great Op-Ed from Paul O’Neill on REALLY Improving Healthcare

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Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care's Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of...

Bad News not Flowing Either Direction at GM?

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Last week, I blogged about an episode where bad news wasn't flowing up in Boeing (or, it's part of a pattern). In my Sunday morning...

Book Review – The Myth of Multitasking

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The Myth of Multitasking - Dave Crenshaw I am long overdue on a review of this book, which I feel bad about because I really...

Jim Collins on Leadership – "Like Lean"?

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How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs - BusinessWeek Jim Collins, of Good to Great fame, has a new book out called...

NY Times Says Toyota To Get Leaner, Um, More Lean? Super...

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Toyota Is Tightening Its Belt - NYTimes.comThe words don't appear directly in the article, but the RSS blurb for this article (repeated in many...

An Inadvertent Lean Role Model?

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FOXNews.com - Mystery Celebrity LinkYou'll have to click on the above link to see who said the following (the link is from Fox News...

Jeff Bezos at the Amazon Gemba

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Curious at Amazon, but Not Idle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com This piece about Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos made me think about visiting the "Gemba"...

Toyota’s Buyouts and New Leadership

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Taking the Wheel as Toyota Skids - NYTimes.comToyota's Cost Cutting Plan to Include Buyouts for Factory WorkersToyota famously has avoided layoffs of permanent employees...

CEO Pay Caps? You Bet!

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By Adam Zak, Adam Zak Executive Search:As a LeanThinker I am most unabashedly a free market advocate. Free trade, absolutely. Love those imported fresh...