Taylorism

You might remember the hubbub (and my earlier blog post) about this article that somehow appeared in the NEJM:…

Thanks to my Amazon Kindle app on my iPad, I get to carry much of my book collection with me. Sometimes, while…

Regular readers will remember my post about the New England Journal of Medicine piece on Lean by Pamela Hartzband,…

I generally avoid politics here on the blog... In October, I broached the subject when I blogged about a company…

In the midst of the discussion about the NEJM article, John Shook of LEI (a former Toyota employee) pointed me to…

In the article posted today, Pamela Hartzband, M.D., and Jerome Groopman, M.D. (the later the author of the popular…

I learned about this the other today via Twitter (hat tip to @agile_memes), but today is "World No Resources Day"…

I've recently been reading an enjoyable book by Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge…

I loved the book  Moneyball by Michael Lewis, but I haven't seen the movie yet (I hear it's good). To me, it was a…

One of the variations of my acronym L.A.M.E. is "Lean As Misguidedly Explained," and I recently ran across two…

First off, a huge thumbs up and thanks are due to Eric Ries and his thought-provoking "Startup Lessons Learned"…

Once again, the WSJ has written about Lean at Starbucks (see my last post "Controversy over New Standardized Work…

I had an amazing conversation on Saturday with Paul Akers (pictured at left), the founder and president of FastCap,…

When I was traveling last week, a magazine caught my eye, one I don't normally read: Scientific American Mind and…

I have as many bad customer service experiences as the next guy, both in healthcare and other businesses. As I've…

This is going to seem like a political rant, but I promise this is mainly a post about Lean and healthcare, or at…