This archive collects videos, webinar recordings, livestreams, and video-based conversations focused on Lean leadership, continuous improvement, psychological safety, and learning from mistakes. These videos are meant to support reflection and practical application—not just passive viewing—across healthcare, manufacturing, and knowledge work.
Topics range from executive leadership behaviors and Kaizen to Deming, Toyota, and building cultures where people feel safe to speak up and improve.
Here’s my second attempt at the Lean Blog Week in Review video. Thanks to those who gave feedback about the first. This new one has no background music and the sound should be the same in both L and R…
This is a new experiment, the “Lean Blog Week in Review.” Let me know what you think. Ideally, I would do these each week, as a recap for those who are behind on the blog or as a way to…
My city in Texas signed a contract with a new trash/waste company that starts on September 1st. The new bin is green (pictured at left). I already had two blue bins from the old company. The bins work just fine.…
Props to KCOE for the spot-on parody video of Bruce Hamilton’s legendary “Toast KAIZEN”: Introduction to Lean Principles DVD. Even if you just watch the first few minutes, it’s pretty priceless if you’re familiar with “Toast.” Highlights for me included:…
One wouldn’t expect to find a depiction of a hospital setting with poor “5S” practices on the show Family Guy – of course, depending on your personality and sense of humor, you might not expect to find anything of value…
One of the people I’ve been fortunate to meet in the last year is Dave deBronkart, aka “e-Patient Dave.” I saw e-PD present at the HIMSS conference this year and we were able to spend some time together during some…
Video #11 features Norman Bodek talking about some of the ideas in his most recent book, How to do Kaizen: A new path to innovation – Empowering everyone to be a problem solver. Late in the podcast, Norman asks and…
This is going to seem like a political rant, but I promise this is mainly a post about Lean and healthcare, or at least it’s about dysfunctional parallels in both settings. It was said that President Ronald Reagan and Speaker…
A few weeks back, I was given the chance to preview a Lean Healthcare intro video from a Wisconsin firm called Optima. The video is part of their Lean Healthcare Video Series, called Lean: A Prescription for Healthcare. The video…
I know this is a blog about Lean, but if you’re reading this, you might be somewhat hip to social media. That’s such a dorky way of expressing that, “hip to it.” Is “dorky” an uncool way of saying not…
Paul Levy has shared some photos and a video, from Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, that gives a glimpse into the design of their new pharmacy. He wrote, in part: We have an old pharmacy on one side of…
What really motivates people to improve their work–especially in healthcare and other complex environments? Drawing on Daniel Pink’s Drive, Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s teachings, and Lean principles, this post explores why intrinsic motivation consistently outperforms incentives, rewards, and punishment in…
