Lean Blog Audio
By Mark Graban
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Lean Blog Audio features Mark Graban reading and expanding on LeanBlog.org posts. Explore real-world lessons on Lean thinking, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and performance metrics like Process Behavior Charts. Learn how leaders in healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond create cultures of learning, reduce fear, and drive better results.
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‘The Rock’ Says Getting Lean is Something Anybody Can Do… If You Work At It
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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5 Big Lean Questions with Mark Graban: Purpose, Misconceptions, and the Path Forward
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Lean Without Layoffs: The Commitment That Makes Continuous Improvement Work
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Stop Forcing Change: Use These Motivational Interviewing Questions Instead
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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GE’s Larry Culp: Why Lean Thinking Starts with Safety and Respect for People
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Fred Noe of Jim Beam: Leadership Lessons on Mistakes, Innovation, and Long-Term Thinking
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The Biggest Lean Six Sigma Myth: "Lean Is Just About Speed"
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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I’m Still Dreaming About My Meal at Sukiyabashi Jiro’s Sushi in Tokyo
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Fear and Futility: Two Barriers to Improvement (and How Leaders Can Remove Them)
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Leadership, Laughter, and Lean: How a CEO’s Shaved Head Symbolized $7 Million in Improvement
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Ghosts, Zombies, and Frankenstein Processes: A Lean Halloween Reflection
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Leader Standard Work Is About Behavior, Not Just Your Calendar
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Coaching vs. Berating: Lessons from Football for Better Leadership
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Plan, Do, Check, Act… or Plan, Do, Cover Your A**? Leadership Makes the Difference
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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A Look Back at Continuous Improvement at the Bedside: Allina Health Case Study
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Leader Standard Work Is About Behavior, Not Just Your Calendar
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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From Know-It-All to Learn-It-All: Leadership Lessons from Mistakes
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Gaming the System: What a USPS Smiley Face Teaches Us About Bad Metrics
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Why "You're Being Safe" Should Be the Norm in Every Operating Room
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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95% of Enterprise AI Pilots “Fail”–Just Like Lean? Not So Fast
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Jim Womack on the Origins of ‘Lean’ and Why It’s Often Misunderstood
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Lean Lessons from Japan: Mindsets, Culture, and the Challenge of Speaking Up
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Your Current Estimated Alarm Response Time Is... 13 Hours?
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Avoiding the Dunning-Kruger Trap in Lean: Lessons from Early Mistakes
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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How a Vineyard “Improvement” Nearly Destroyed European Wine — and What We Can Learn from It
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Kaizen Alone Isn’t Enough: Why Leaders Must Fix the System for Real Improvement
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Einstein’s Favorite Mistake — and What It Teaches Us About Lean Thinking
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Join Me at AME St. Louis 2025 for an Interactive Workshop on Better Metrics and Better Management
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Beyond Tools: Why Lean Healthcare Depends on Respect and Continuous Improvement
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Three Ways Pressure Warps Performance Metrics–and What Leaders Must Do Instead
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Almost 17 Years Later: Reflections on Lean Hospitals and the Journey of Improvement
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Kakorrhaphiophobia: How Fear of Failure Sabotages Continuous Improvement and Innovation
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Kaiteki: The Japanese Philosophy Behind Motivated Employees and Lean Success
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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How Safe is it to Admit a Mistake at Work? [Poll]
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Excited to Facilitate a Workshop at AME 2025: Deming, Red Beads & Process Behavior Charts
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May 29, 2025 |
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A Free Resource for Leaders: The Mistake-Smart Leader's Checklist
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May 27, 2025 |
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40 Years Ago: Just for the Mistake of It… New Coke!
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May 22, 2025 |
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Update on my June 17th Workshop: Improving the Way We Improve (Cincinnati)
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May 19, 2025 |
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Psychological Safety: You get your say, not always your way.
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May 17, 2025 |
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Join Me in Japan: A Lean Healthcare Accelerator Experience This October
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May 14, 2025 |
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Leadership by Fear Doesn’t Work — And Never Really Did
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May 06, 2025 |
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How Psychological Safety Drives Digital Transformation and the Toyota Production System (or Lean)
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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'The Mistakes That Make Us' Receives the Shingo Publication Award!
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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My Upcoming Webinar on Mistake-Proofing Across Industries
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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An Aussie Backpacker’s Workplace Frustration: The Universal Need for Better Leadership
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Safety First: GE Aerospace’s Lynn Facility Demonstrates True Lean Leadership
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Leadership Gone Wrong: The Cost of Prioritizing a CEO’s Ego Over Effectiveness
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Starting the New Year with Global Leadership Resolutions: Building a Foundation of Psychological Safety
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Lost My iPhone in Tokyo: A Lesson in Japanese Kindness and Culture on My Japan Study Trip
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Ten Years Ago -- In the News Visiting a Japanese Lean Hospital
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Surveying the Lean Global Connection Audience on Barriers to Speaking Up
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Just Call it “5S Six Sigma” Instead of “Lean Sigma” Please
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Lean Failure Explained: When Command-and-Control Leadership Sabotages Success
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Whoa! A.I. Podcast Hosts Discuss “The Mistakes That Make Us”
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Why Labeling Mistakes as 'Stupid' Is the Real Mistake: Turning Errors into Growth
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Leadership Failure: How Refusing to Be Wrong Hurts Teams and Innovation
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Why Kindness in Leadership Matters: Lessons from 'The Mistakes That Make Us'
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Starbucks Mobile Ordering Chaos Again: Broken Processes, Inconsistent Service, and Misguided Quality Concerns
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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We’ve Stopped Punishing People for Mistakes. Now What?
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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A Monthly Bonus for Zero Injuries in the Factory — What Could Go Wrong?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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The Power of Learning from Mistakes: Insights from ‘Lean Hospitals’ and ‘The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen’
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The 5 Most Controversial Ideas in The Mistakes That Make Us
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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From Football to Your Workplace: Why a Lone Wolf Can’t Transform An Organization
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Understanding Slow Decisions: How "Motivational Interviewing" Can Help at Work
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Executive Summary on Cultivating Psychological Safety and Continuous Improvement
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Why Two Data Points Don't Show Trends: Understanding the Importance of Comprehensive Data Analysis in Workplaces and News
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The Suggestion Box is Dead, with a New Obituary
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Demystifying Toyota’s Andon System: How It Works and Common Misconceptions
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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I’ll Be Speaking, Learning, and Facilitating at the Global Lean Summit
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Don't Digitize the Suggestion Box -- Improve a Better Way with Kaizen and KaiNexus
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Psychological Safety: Ensuring Every Voice is Heard, Not Necessarily Followed
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Join Me on Friday for The Mistakes That Make Us: A Book Birthday Event
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Join Me at the Michigan Lean Consortium Annual Conference in August!
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Mistakes and Errors: A Circular Definition; Leadership Matters
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Upcoming Shingo Webinar on Learning From Mistakes and Psychological Safety
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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The Pitfalls of Safety Bonuses in Lean Factories: A True Story
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Psychological Safety vs. Psychological Comfort: Understanding the Distinction
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Preventing Surgical Errors: Effective Strategies Over Warning Signs in Operating Rooms
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Celebrating 100 Years of Shewhart’s Control Charts: A Century of Quality Management
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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LinkedIn Poll on Barriers to Speaking Up: Fear and Futility
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May 31, 2024 |
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My New Mistake-Proofing Course for TKMG Academy: Available Now!
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May 29, 2024 |
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Do We Need Another Share in the See, Solve, Share Model of Continuous Improvement?
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May 16, 2024 |
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LinkedIn Poll on Barriers to Speaking Up: Fear and Futility
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May 14, 2024 |
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Uncovering Root Causes: Beyond the Conference Room – The Lean Approach to Problem Solving
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May 09, 2024 |
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Rewriting the Management Gospel: Lessons from Hayes, Abernathy, and the Frontlines of Industry
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May 07, 2024 |
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Navigating Hospital Processes (or a Lack Thereof): Systemic Issues in Outpatient Surgery
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May 02, 2024 |
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Don Petersen, Ford CEO Who Learned from Dr. Deming, Passes Away at 97
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Transforming Leadership: How to Shift from Blame to Systemic Improvement
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Bring Mark Graban to Speak at Your Health System’s Quarterly Leadership Forum
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Embracing Challenges for Success: Lessons in Toyota Culture and Kaizen from Nate Furuta
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp on a Finger-Pointing Culture and a Better Alternative
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Turning Bad News into Building Blocks: Cultivating a Culture Where Mistakes Fuel Growth (Larry Culp and GE)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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The Problem (737 MAX and Beyond) at Boeing Isn't "Idiots." It's Far More Complex Than That... But Fixable
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Cultivating a Culture of Candor: Transforming Workplace Communication for Better Outcomes
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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A Better Question Than "Do You Have Any Questions?"
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Instead of Urging Your Employees to Be Brave, Help Them Feel Safe Speaking Up
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Shigeo Shingo & Norman Bodek on Learning From Mistakes, Including Shingo’s
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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ChatGPT Summarizes the Chapters in My Book, Measures of Success
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Come to Japan With Me and Katie Anderson in November to Study Lean!
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Mistakes are Proof that You’re Trying? A Situational Analysis
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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What Will a “Quality Stand Down” Day Accomplish at Boeing?
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Chef Gordon Ramsay on Never Making the Same Mistake Twice
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Closing Boeing’s “Shadow Factory” is Harder Than it Sounds
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Lean Leadership in Action: CEO Larry Culp's Journey to Revitalize GE at the Gemba
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Mastering Mistake-Proofing: Insights from Toyota's Poka Yoke Approach
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Psychological Safety in Manufacturing: How Silence in Aerospace Factories Can Turn Deadly
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Congrats to Four Podcast Guests Who Were Named to the “Thinkers50” List
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Cyber Monday / Week Deal: “Measures of Success” Signed Copies
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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World Kindness Day, The Mistakes That Make Us, and Help From Karyn Ross
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Gemba vs. Genba -- Different Spellings or Different Words and Meanings?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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From Punishment to Improvement: Transforming Workplace Culture
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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The Power of Small Acts: How 60 Cents Became Something Priceless
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Boeing 767 Emergency Slide Mistakenly Deployed — Is This the Flight Attendant’s Fault?
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Stop Spending Money on Problem-Solving Training; Focus on psychological safety instead
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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An Exciting Live-Streamed Event on September 6: The Lean Mindset with GE and Many Special Guests
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Remembering and Honoring Chris Burnham, a Colleague and Friend
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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When Life Tests You: My Attempt to Donate a Couch Was Blocked by Bureaucracy
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Speaking Up Isn’t a Matter of Character or Courage–It’s Driven by Culture
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Lean Blog Audio: Trailer
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Story: When Firing an Employee Doesn’t Prevent the Repeat of the Mistake
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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A Workplace Culture Where "FAIL" Means First Attempt in Learning
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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In Memoriam: Masaaki Imai, "The Father of KAIZEN™" (1930-2023)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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A Near Miss with Amazon's Publishing Platform - Save Draft or Publish
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Why Keep Asking, “What’s Your Favorite Mistake?”
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May 15, 2023 |
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Organizations Cannot Solve Problems Unless Leaders Admit Them and Help Others Feel Safe Speaking Up
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May 12, 2023 |
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Kindle Pre-Orders Open for “The Mistakes That Make Us” — Enter to Win Signed Paperback
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May 07, 2023 |
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Reader Question: Why Did I Get Into Lean Healthcare?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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“The Mistakes That Make Us” — My Manuscript is Done! Some Backstory and What Comes Next
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Measures of Success (Paperback Version) Turns Four Years Old
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Learning from Small Mistakes to Avoid Big Mistakes, Operating Rooms and Patient Harm
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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GE's Larry Culp on Making it Safe for Bad News to Flow to the CEO (or Other Leaders)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Highlights from GE CEO Larry Culp's Remarks at the AME Conference in Dallas
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Toyota Was Helped, not Hampered, by TPS During the Pandemic
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Does Learning From Mistakes Mean It's OK to Try Any "Dumb Thing" - For Elon Musk or Any of Us?
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Psychological Safety as a Pre-Condition for Lean
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Isn't It Ironic? Mistakes That Interrupted My Webinar About Mistakes
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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This WSJ Article About Lean Isn't Terrible (via GE and Larry Culp)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Dolphins Are Also Smart Enough to Game the System to Get More
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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What Does Kaizen Suggest About How to Incentivize People to Submit Ideas?
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Free Webinar: Applications of Lean Leadership Methods in Home-Based Care
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Improvements to the Covid Vaccination Process -- Small and Large (and Hockey Hubs)
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May 20, 2021 |
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What Does Lean Mean to Healthcare Professionals? What Should it Mean?
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Being Logical and Kind When a Mistake is Made
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Will "Kaizen" Get the Buffalo Bills to Next Year's Super Bowl?
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Blaming “Human Error” Isn’t an Excuse for Wasting 500 Doses of Covid Vaccine
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Announcing a New Podcast Series: “My Favorite Mistake: Reflections From Business Leaders”
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Why I'm "Handing Over" My Blog for the Week to #RootCauseRacism
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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Great Piece: "Health Care Workers Protect Us. It's Time to Protect Them."
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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The “Practicing Lean” Audiobook is Available Through Audible
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Standard Work for Being as Safe as Possible When Refueling Your Vehicle
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May 19, 2020 |
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Remembering a Great Leader, Paul O'Neill (1935-2020)
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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What my Book "Lean Hospitals" Says About Inventory Planning
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Thoughts From Lean Thinkers on Coping with the Coronavirus Crisis
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Apr 11, 2020 |
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See? Lean is About Flexibility, Not Low Inventory
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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One Doctor's Troubling Experiences in the Emergency Department [Covid-19]
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Covid-19: Don't Blame Toyota or "Just in Time" for Your Risky Supply Chain Strategy
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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For Covid-19 Preparedness, Hospitals Need More Than Written Protocols
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Jumping to Solutions: A Hard Habit to Break
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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My “Measures of Success” Workshop at the Shingo Conference 2020 in Orlando
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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GE's CEO Larry Culp Goes to the Gemba, Looks to Understand the Real Reality
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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When Should We Lower a Target and When Should We Try Harder to Figure Out How to Reach It?
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Our Toyota Tour Guide's Kaizen
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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A Japanese Hospital CEO on Kaizen, Innovation & Breakthrough
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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Jess Orr on What She Learned by Leaving Toyota
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Maybe "Just Do Its" Should be Called "Just PDSA Its"?
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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When Problems are Hidden in Kudos: From Celebrations to Root Cause Countermeasures
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Previewing Mark Valenti's Webinar on "Motivational Interviewing" for the Workplace
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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General Jim Mattis on Leadership, Mistakes, and Defining Problems
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Third Time's the Charm for the Iced Tea -- On Errors, Blame, and Process
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Mark Graban Interviewed by KOGO Radio, San Diego
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Embracing and Helping Surgeons Accept Change -- Instead of Blaming & Labeling Them
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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What Chefs and Restauranteurs Say About Learning From Failures & Mistakes
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Bob Lutz on Tesla, Threats, & Communication About Quality - and Implications for Healthcare
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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Lean: A Combination of "Why?" and "Why Not?"
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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When Having a Process Improvement Idea Means You're Weak?
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Come See a Culture of Continuous Improvement at Franciscan Health This October!
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Inside Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line - Flexibility and Kaizen
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Toyota, Respect for People (or "Humanity") and Lean
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May 25, 2019 |
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How PBCs (Process Behavior Charts) Can Enhance the Practice of OKRs (Objectives & Key Results)
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May 20, 2019 |
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My Talk: When Being Right is the Wrong Strategy for Change
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May 17, 2019 |
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When Old Habits and Old Science No Longer Make Sense - Evidence vs. Habit in Medicine and #Lean
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May 16, 2019 |
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Family Guy Skewers Marie Kondo (and 5S and Lean too?)
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May 13, 2019 |
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A Hospital CEO Who Wants Other CEOs to “Give a Damn” About Their People
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May 01, 2019 |
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On Boeing, GM, and Hospitals… and Epic Battles Between Reality and Spokespeople?
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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On Podcast Server Downtime, Scars from General Motors, and Taking Ownership of My Situation
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Is "Kaizen" a Slogan or a Methodology for the Seattle Marine
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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The CEO Leading the Culture Change at ZSFGH
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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A Lean Guy Reads "Health Leaders" on Nursing Retention
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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WSJ News Flash: Developing Better Leaders Makes a Difference
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Lean Should be Solution to Hospital Overwork or Understaffing
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Toyota as a "People Development Company"
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Value is Defined by the Customer...
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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For Big Leaps With New Year’s Resolutions, Start With
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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LinkedIn Post: The Carrot and The Stick “On Steroids”
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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React Less and Improve More by Using SPC More Effectively
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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#Lean Shouldn't be a Reason for Nurses to Strike
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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“ER wait times down, but only slightly” ??
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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The Catch-22 of #Lean & Kaizen: You Get More ROI by NOT...
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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Leaders & Lean: We Need to Better Support Doctors and
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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My Talk in Vegas: Leadership Lessons from Statistics and Psych
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Elon Musk, Safety, and Leadership at Tesla
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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What's Going on at Whole Foods? It Doesn't Sound Like Lean...
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Tour Preview: The Japanese Health Care System at a High Level
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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The WSJ Overgeneralizes about The "Japanese Model," Not...
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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#Lean Can Be Very Fragile, Especially With Executive Changes
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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Employee Complaints About Lean in Healthcare, Even at...
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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Somebody *Did* Get Unjustly Fired in Hawaii, But System...
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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"What would you say... you do here?" -- 2018 Edition
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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My Thoughts on Standardized Work and #Lean
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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What We're Looking Forward to Learning at Toyota
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare...
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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The Response to the Hawaii False Alarm...
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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Did Toyota's Mindset Really Leave the (Now) Tesla...
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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A Powerful Message from Toyota's President
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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Should #Lean Conferences Add a "Code of Conduct" for S
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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#ChangeChampions at Franciscan St. Francis Health
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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Highlights from a Great Book: "The Leader's Handbook"
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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Looking for “Champions of Change” in Healthcare Supply
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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Of Course Doctors Hate Being "Excluded" From Attempts
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Healthcare People: Study Lean and Kaizen in Japan
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Toyota Helps a Young Inventor; Look at His Dad's Toyota...
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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#Lean Enterprise Institute Announces New CEO
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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"Our Hospitals Are Killing Us“ (1966)
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Free Webinar Today on #Lean Collaboration Across Companies
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Texas Hospital Saves Money Occasionally With Lean Six Sigma
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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This Organization Chose Not to "Deploy #Lean" Because...
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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Toyota Helps Children's Health Dallas Reduce Some CLABSIs
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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Variation in Definitions of #Lean (The Good, the Bad...
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Aug 30, 2017 |
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"Practicing Lean" Audiobook is Released! And a New Essay
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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How NOT to Improve Patient Flow: Laws, Targets, Blame,
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Aim for "Effectiveness" in Your Gemba Walks, Not "Effi
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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Monday's #SolarEclipse: Supply Chain Challenges and Eye
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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Highlights of "Boss Level Podcast" - Gen. Stan McChrystal
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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My Webinar: Standardize What Makes Sense...
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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Does Being Giddy With Knowledge About Wine or Lean Cau
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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Dr. Don Berwick on Respect and Change at the Front Lines
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Change: Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, and Commitment
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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The Conundrum that is Dr. Deming on Metrics, Measures,
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Jul 16, 2017 |
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Lean Healthcare Featured in Sunday's NY Times Business
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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Is This a 5S Problem or a Broader Healthcare Leadership Issue?
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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The Power of "How Might We?"
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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Is it a "Lean Transformation" or a "Lean Metamorphosis"?
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Imitation as a Path to Innovation... If You Know What..
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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Do Words Matter on a Kaizen Card?
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Jun 04, 2017 |
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Easier, Better, Faster, Cheaper... What's Missing There?
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Jun 04, 2017 |
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A Prototype For My "Two-Bin Hand Sanitizer" Concept
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May 18, 2017 |
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A Lesson From Toyota: Thanking Employees for Pointing
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May 16, 2017 |
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3 Recent Audience Questions on Kaizen & Continuous Improvement
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May 12, 2017 |
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Reader Question: A Lone Wolf in #Lean Facilitator's Clothing
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May 11, 2017 |
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Thoughts on "Good" vs. "Better" from My College Marching Band
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May 11, 2017 |
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The Good and the Bad of the United CEO's Follow Up to
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May 05, 2017 |
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"Practicing Lean" as an Audio Book - First Half Now Available
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May 04, 2017 |
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My LinkedIn Article: Supply Chain Matters - at the Oscars
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May 04, 2017 |
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Don't Have Time for Meditation or Improvement? You Should...
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Apr 30, 2017 |
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Reader Question: How Many People & How Much Time for...
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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Is Calling People "Concrete Heads" the Most Effective...
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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What are the "Quick Wins?" Ask the People Doing the...
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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The United Flight 3411 Mess, Holding Individuals Accountable
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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My Article on Changing How We Think About Change
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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The Patient Pays Less, Yet the Surgeon's Paid More
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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Why You Shouldn't Call Yourself "Sensei" Or Make Other
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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Measures, Incentives, Heart Attack Mortality, Driving
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Apr 05, 2017 |
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Coming Soon– 4th Revised Ed. of “Lean Hospitals” (April Fool)
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Sad Bloomberg BusinessWeek Article on Auto Supplier Safety
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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10 Years of "L.A.M.E."
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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New Whitepaper: "#Lean for Doctors"
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Mar 10, 2017 |
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#TBT: Don't Blame the Kicker, Don't Blame...
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Personal Kaizen: How I Reduced Effort...
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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Learning & Emulating Without Copying Blindly from...
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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I Was Asked to Share "Pet Peeves" About Lean (and Lean Sigma)
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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If a Surgeon or Hospital Puts Quantity over Quality...
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Feb 22, 2017 |
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The Advice about #Lean That Your Hospital CEO Should Be Getting
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Feb 20, 2017 |
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Registration is Open! "Kaizen Live!" at Franciscan
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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Lessons Ford & the UAW Learned in Japan in 1981 Still Apply
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Feb 12, 2017 |
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#TBT: My Reflections on Dr. Deming's Notes...
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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The Heroism of Incremental CarIe & Incremental Improvement
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Lean as Redesign and Continuous Improvement,
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Jan 29, 2017 |
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Improving Safety & Quality Matters, but...
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Jan 25, 2017 |
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You Don't Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement by...
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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2nd Post for the Deming Institute Blog
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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Lean is Not Just Process Improvement
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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Contest: Win a Set of #Lean & Patient Safety Books
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Jan 15, 2017 |
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Marie Osmond and The Excuses for Not Getting Lean
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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Better Metrics & "Understanding Variation"
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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My Post for the Deming Institute Blog:
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Jan 06, 2017 |
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What the World's Best Organizations...
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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My Visit to Cleveland Clinic
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Jan 02, 2017 |
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Food for Thought on Mistakes and Perfection
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Jan 01, 2017 |
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Examples of Corporate Speak Masking Reality
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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Bringing Me Problems is OK, We'll Find Solutions Together
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Dec 18, 2016 |
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#TBT: What CFO Magazine Wrote About #Lean in 2009
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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Human Nature Around Incentives & Rewards
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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"The reign of the king-leader is gone" at GM?
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Dec 11, 2016 |
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Lean People Don't Say Things Like "Idiot Proofing"
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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In My Global Lean Healthcare Travels,
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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ThedaCare CEO Dean Gruner to Retire; What's Next for ThedaCare?
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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Good News: UCSF to Teach #Lean to Residents
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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This Time, the NEJM Publishes Something Positive About #Lean
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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Part 3 of Day 1: #Lean Healthcare Trip to China
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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Lean Healthcare Trip to China, Day 1, Part 2
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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Mark Graban Interviewed on "Quality Digest Live"
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Jul 25, 2016 |
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"Lean Is About Quality, Not Just Speed or Efficiency...
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Jul 24, 2016 |
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Lean Healthcare Trip to China, Day 1, Part 1:
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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Free Excerpt from "Lean Hospitals" and "Practicing Lean"
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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Be Careful With "No Waiting Rooms" Just Like "Zero Inventories"
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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GM's CEO Roger Smith Thought Toyota Had Magic,
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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From 1994, But Relevant Today: "Why TQM Fails"
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Jun 08, 2016 |
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his Doctor is Upset About Something,
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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The Need for Standardized Work When Ordering Whiskey
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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My LinkedIn Post on Bad Toast & Bad Management
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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If Your Hospital Wants to "Implement #Lean,"
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May 31, 2016 |
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NEJM Authors Double Down on Their Claim That Lean = Taylorism
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May 25, 2016 |
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Stuff I'm Reading May 2016: Bad Patient Experiences...
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May 24, 2016 |
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Congratulations on Reducing Waiting Times,
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May 19, 2016 |
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Lean Hospitals: Thoughts from a Health System C.O.O.
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May 17, 2016 |
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J.C. Penney's CEO on Listening to Front-Line Employees
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May 16, 2016 |
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Free Chapter - Upcoming 3rd Edition of "#Lean Hospitals"
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May 14, 2016 |
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Updates: NICU Innovation, Labs, MLB Netting, VA Waiting
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May 05, 2016 |
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Why It's OK That This Suggestion Box Was Full of Cobwebs
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May 04, 2016 |
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A Radical Idea in Healthcare: Refunds for Dissatisfied Customers
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May 03, 2016 |
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A Post-Mortem on a Different Hospital Lean Journey
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May 02, 2016 |
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Why Would a New Healthcare CEO Kill a Lean Program?
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May 02, 2016 |
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More on "Motivational Interviewing" as a Method for
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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From a Patient Safety Tragedy to Lean & Baldrige
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Mar 26, 2016 |
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There's a Yuuuge Problem with Donald Trump's
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Mar 11, 2016 |
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Early Days of Lean in Veterinary Medicine?
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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What Virginia Mason's CEO Dr. Gary Kaplan Warns Against
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Mar 06, 2016 |
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Announced "Workplace Principles" for NHS Wales Staff
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Mar 01, 2016 |
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What We Can Learn About Teamwork and Culture
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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#Lean: The Toyota Production System is Mainly
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Feb 24, 2016 |
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#Lean Would Be a Solution for What These Nurses Complain About
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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Engaging Staff in Improvement is Actually the Toyota Way, Too
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Toyota's Japan Shutdown Lessons for Hospitals (and Others)
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Feb 07, 2016 |
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Is This The One Question That Determines If You're
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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Kaizen Live! 2016 - See a Culture of Continuous Improvement
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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How Failed Lean Implementations Are Like a Bad
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Jan 31, 2016 |
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HBR Article on Avoiding the Futility of Suggestion Systems
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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Doctors Bash "Taylorism" and "Toyota Lean"
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Jan 24, 2016 |
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Wise Words from Mark Twain on Continuous Improvement
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Jan 19, 2016 |
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Where Do Hospitals Get the Idea that Lean is Only
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Jan 11, 2016 |
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Dr. Don Berwick is "Stunned" By How Few
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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"If the Employees are Upset, it's Not Really Lean"
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Jan 06, 2016 |
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Throwback Thursday: Humility is a Rare & Powerful Trait
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Jan 04, 2016 |
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Simple Mixups & How Blaming Workers
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Jan 03, 2016 |
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You Can't Force Anyone to Change Their Minds or Actions
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Dec 29, 2015 |
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You Got Them to Do What? Getting a Hospital to Dedicate
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Nov 29, 2015 |
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Maybe We Should Call it "The Many Whys"
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Nov 18, 2015 |
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You Just Have to Ask Why Five Times?
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Nov 17, 2015 |
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The First Ever Instance of "Lean Doesn't Apply to Us?"
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Nov 11, 2015 |
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It's Not #Lean to Have Dysfunctional Efficiency Targets
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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Fighting Against "The Way We've Always Done It"
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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Automakers & Car Dealers Should Survey Customers
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Nov 09, 2015 |
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Confusion over #Lean Manufacturing, Lean Healthcare,
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Nov 06, 2015 |
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How Kaizen & Continuous Improvement are Key to
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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Donald Trump's Red Hat (and Other Politicians' Hats)
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Oct 04, 2015 |
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"Learning to be Lean"
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Sep 28, 2015 |
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This Hospital CEO Was Never Going to Get Lean
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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Better Change Leadership as a Countermeasure
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Sep 23, 2015 |
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5S: The Good, the Bad, and the Extreme in Japanese Hospitals
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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In Tribute to and in Memory of Dr. Michel Tétreault
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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Are Millennials the Only Ones Who Need to Understand Why?
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Sep 16, 2015 |
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Stuff I'm Reading Sept 2015: Urgency, Problems, and Lemmings
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Sep 09, 2015 |
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Football, Holistic Systems, and Challenging the
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Sep 03, 2015 |
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Another Conversation About L.A.M.E. and Lean
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Aug 31, 2015 |
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Inc. Writes About Dr. Deming in 1987
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Aug 27, 2015 |
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Updating "Lean Hospitals" and a New eBook, "Practicing Lean"
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Aug 24, 2015 |
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So-Called "Just in Time" Retail Staff Scheduling is not #Lean
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Aug 22, 2015 |
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Using Lean to Organize Hospital Closets...
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Aug 14, 2015 |
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A Hospital Manager Makes Time for Kaizen
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Aug 13, 2015 |
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When Warnings Aren't Given or Heeded,
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Aug 12, 2015 |
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"Practice? We're Talking About Practice?" Yes, Practicing Lean
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Aug 08, 2015 |
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Let's Play Match Game '15 - Suggestion Box Edition
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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How My Blog Rant Helped Keep an Office 5S
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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Moving from "Visuals" to "Visual Management"
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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Why This Sushi Company Policy Letter
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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How These Credit Card Websites Illustrate Lean Mistake Proofing
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Aug 01, 2015 |
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A Lean Guy Listens to NPR: NICU Waste,
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Jul 31, 2015 |
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Key Points About Kaizen from Japanese Hospitals,
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Jul 30, 2015 |
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Model Lines and Model Cells as a Lean Transformation Strategy
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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Parody: Keith Olber-Lean and the
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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"Lean Won't Work Here... We're Different"
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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The Kaizen Approach to Getting Others Comfortable with Sushi
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Jul 23, 2015 |
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"This American Life" on NUMMI Lessons,
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Jul 23, 2015 |
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Fear, Lies, Failure, and Success (and Laughs)
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Jul 20, 2015 |
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Healthcare Headlines in the UK are Mostly Similar to the US
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Jul 18, 2015 |
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Reader Question from an MD:
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Visual Management for an International Flight,
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Jun 29, 2015 |
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Kaizen Hints from Heloise, or, If Kaizen is Common Sense,
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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Would the WSJ Blame "Just in Time" for the Stanley Cup
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Jun 25, 2015 |
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How Would You Respond to This Kaizen Idea?
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Jun 24, 2015 |
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I'm Moderating a #LeanStartup Webcast Today:
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Jun 19, 2015 |
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Visiting MIT, Learning about "The Good Jobs Strategy"
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Jun 19, 2015 |
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A Lean Guy Reads the Boston Papers: Facts, Respect,
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Jun 18, 2015 |
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First Look: "Management on the Mend" by Dr. John Toussaint
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Jun 15, 2015 |
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A Tale of Two Clinics - What I Wish My Primary Care Could Be
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Jun 13, 2015 |
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Jack Dorsey: It's an "Organizational Failure" if the CEO
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May 29, 2015 |
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The Leadership Mantras of Don Davis
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May 28, 2015 |
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Lean: Hit or Myth? Layoffs, Patient-Centered Care, and More
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May 27, 2015 |
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The Joy of (Waste Reduction and) Cooking
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May 26, 2015 |
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10 Key Lean Mindsets for Factories, Hospitals, Startups,
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May 25, 2015 |
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Gemba in the NICU: More Notes from our "Kaizen Live"
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May 19, 2015 |
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U.S. Hospitals Have the Best E.R. Care for Kids,
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May 18, 2015 |
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Another Experiment That Works in Healthcare: Safety Huddles
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May 13, 2015 |
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An Experiment That Works in Healthcare: Pioneer ACOs
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May 12, 2015 |
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Are Hospitalists Ready to Get Serious About Reducing Waste
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May 05, 2015 |
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Some Highlights from Last Week's "Kaizen Live" Event
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May 04, 2015 |
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Throwback Thursday: Dr. Deming's Last Interview
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May 03, 2015 |
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The Scripps Health CEO is Right About No-Layoffs Policies
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Apr 20, 2015 |
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Why is the Hawthorne Effect Nothing to Brag About or Hope For?
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Apr 15, 2015 |
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Why Would These Workplace Slogans Be Offensive to Employees?
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Apr 14, 2015 |
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Rhode Island's Governor Announces Lean Initiative,
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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Throwback Thursday: 23 Tweets I Might Have Sent in 2002
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Apr 09, 2015 |
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What's Interesting About This Toyota Executive
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Apr 07, 2015 |
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An Invention to Prevent Empty Gel or Foam Sanitizer
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Apr 06, 2015 |
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10 More Reasons to Come See Kaizen at Franciscan
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Mar 31, 2015 |
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We Can't Ignore "Lean Horror Stories" or That Cheeseburger
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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Jim Womack on the Term "Lean" & Eric Ries on "Lean Startup"
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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Lean Factories and Lean Hospitals Are Safer and
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Mar 25, 2015 |
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Throwback Thursday: Creating the New American Hospital
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Mar 19, 2015 |
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Please Help with Research Topics
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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ThrowbackThursday: #Lean Manufacturing Training from 2002
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Mar 12, 2015 |
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It's Patient Safety Awareness Week and I Was Surprised
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Mar 11, 2015 |
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10 Ways that Lean Respects & Supports Healthcare Staff
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Womack, Sweatshops, Hospitals, and Surveys
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Mar 09, 2015 |
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A Call for Partners to Measure Improvement Results
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Mar 06, 2015 |
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Why Kaizen is an Important Differentiator for Japanese Whisky
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Mar 05, 2015 |
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Kaizen: Giving Seven Days' Grace on a New Idea
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Mar 04, 2015 |
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The One Thing Google Should Show When You Search for a Hospital
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Mar 03, 2015 |
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A Story About a Hospital Putting Safety First
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Feb 26, 2015 |
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"Safety is always our top priority" -
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Feb 25, 2015 |
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"Accountability" Shouldn't Mean Blaming People
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Feb 23, 2015 |
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Paying Attention to Small Details
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Feb 19, 2015 |
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Who Ever Asks "Let's Plus/Delta That Visit / Stay"?
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Feb 17, 2015 |
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When Will The Federal Government&VA Learn?
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Feb 16, 2015 |
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Upcoming Kaizen Workshops in Boston and Indy
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Feb 16, 2015 |
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Why don't we do what we know we're supposed to do? Why don't I?
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Feb 11, 2015 |
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The "Productivity Paradox" of Healthcare IT and
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Feb 06, 2015 |
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What Does ThedaCare CEO Dean Gruner, MD Say About Safety?
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Feb 05, 2015 |
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The Patriots, Coach Belichick, Aspects of Lean Thinking,
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Feb 01, 2015 |
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Audio Parody - "Lean Serial"
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Jan 30, 2015 |
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"Lean Sigma" is Still Pretty Often Wrong on Lean
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Jan 29, 2015 |
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Looking back at the Toyota Tsutsumi plant tour, part 2
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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Looking back at the Toyota Tsutsumi plant tour, part 1
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Jan 20, 2015 |
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Putting Up Signs and Shooting Down Ideas
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Jan 19, 2015 |
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Parallels Between Personal Training and Lean Coaching
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Jan 18, 2015 |
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The Original Intent of My GM Standup Meeting
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Jan 15, 2015 |
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Strategy Deployment as a Series of Hypotheses - Pt 1
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Jan 14, 2015 |
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Fear of speaking up is a broader problem,
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Jan 13, 2015 |
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Lessons from the Football Coaching and Leadership
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Jan 12, 2015 |
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GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers)
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Jan 11, 2015 |
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Throwback Thursday: Presenting Lean to Senior
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Jan 08, 2015 |
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"Four Days With Dr. Deming"
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Jan 07, 2015 |
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The Little Difference That Turned "No Ideas"
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Jan 05, 2015 |