Tag: Respect for People

There's an excellent blog post on the Virginia Mason Medical Center site: "Does respecting co-workers make patients safer?" As a leader in adopting and adapting...

"Shadowing" is a very powerful method. In a healthcare setting, we can shadow patients or staff to better understand the "current state" of how...

Today I'm linking to a guest post that I wrote for my friend Marc Rouppe van der Voort who works at St. Elisabeth Hospital...

Following up on my recent post on the tour of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) plant in San Antonio, here are some pictures...

tl;dr: In this post, Mark explores Toyota's principle of "Respect for People" within the context of Lean methodologies. He delves into how this principle...

Here's a funny one... I was dragging a bit, working from home, and was ready for a mid-afternoon cup of coffee via my Keurig...

Today's guest post is by author  Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for  Podcast #145.   While doing research for another project, I had the...

Today's guest post is by Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for Podcast #145.   Most of the literature I read about "Respect for People"...

Mark's note:  I'm back from vacation, but I have a few more great guest posts today and tomorrow as I get back into...

As the creator of the admittedly awkward L.A.M.E. acronym (meaning Lean As Mistakenly Explained or Lean As Misguidedly Executed), one burden is that I...

Dr. Robert Wachter has a great column in today's USA Today: "Column: Gregory House M.D.: RIP" and it's republished on his blog, with its...

Thanks to blog reader Justin Lewis for sending me a link to a post on his hospital's blog -- from Memorial Health System in...