Tag: Quality

Quality: Leadership, Systems Thinking, and Continuous Improvement

Quality doesn’t come from inspection, pressure, or choosing between speed and accuracy. It comes from well-designed systems, capable processes, and leaders who focus on learning instead of blame. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on quality through a Lean and Deming lens—covering psychological safety, metrics, variation, leadership behavior, healthcare quality, and why sustainable improvement depends on fixing systems rather than managing people harder.

Words that Matter in Healthcare

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Healthcare Intelligence Network » Blog Archive » Eight Steps to a Culture of SafetyI think words matter. Action matters, also, but the...

"If you didn’t do it in Six Sigma, then it didn’t...

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Guest Columnist - Quality DigestWow, this is pretty bad... allegedly about GE. Granted, any dysfunctional Lean company could end up with similar dynamics. So...

Book Review: The Ice Cream Maker

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The Ice Cream Maker: An Inspiring Tale About Making Quality The Key Ingredient in Everything You DoI was reading the WSJ a while back...

Weekend Fun Blog

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It's the weekend, here's a fun post and links for you. The "FAIL" blog is somewhat addictive, a collection of funny signs and bad...

A Powerful Message on Lean and Healthcare

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Why I Work In Healthcare | DailyKaizenHere's a great one to end the day on... Lee Fried has a powerful post over on the...

Chrysler matches Toyota in a Single Skew-able Metric – Who Cares?

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Chrysler matches Toyota in efficiency - Detroit NewsI didn't mean for this to become "beat up on the Detroit Three" week... this comes in...

GM to try to Inspect Quality In After Letting Experience Walk...

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GM preps for new hires after buyoutsThis is a particularly sad story. We often debate the proper role of layoffs and headcount reductions in...

Dennis Quaid on 60 Minutes

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Dennis Quaid Recounts Twins' Drug Ordeal, Actor Tells 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Medical Errors Kill Thousands - CBS News Did you see the actor Dennis...

Turn the Tables on Haier Management?

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Chinese Refrigerator Maker Finds U.S. Chilly - WSJ.com:Here's another case of where your bosses should NOT take manufacturing management practices from the WSJ. In...

Lean *is* About Quality, Folks

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Time for a low-carb Lean Six Sigma?:Stuff like this irritates me to no end:"Lean Manufacturing has us analyzing process flow and delay times at...

The Feds Reverse Their Decision on Checklists!

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Wachter's World : The Checklist Saga: Victory!This is great news for patients and is probably great news for those of you who have been...

Hospital Safety, Quality and Advertising

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I was wondering the other day about hospital advertising that you might see in your community (TV ads, billboards, newspaper ads). With the focus...
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