Mark Graban

Mark Graban
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Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups. Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean. Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.

Enter to Win A Better Way to Protect Your Covid Vaccination...

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I host a podcast about mistakes (My Favorite Mistake) and I make mistakes all the time. One mistake I have NOT made is laminating my...

MIT’s Dr. Jonathan Byrnes on the Pandemic’s Supply Chain Shocks

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Scroll down for video, how to subscribe, video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #412 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is Dr. Jonathan...

The WSJ is Once Again Mostly Wrong About Just in Time...

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This image -- a huge container ship coming from a far-off land -- does NOT represent the Lean and Toyota Production System notion of...

Mark and Lee Talk About Mistakes and Lean

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My latest episode of "My Favorite Mistake" is one with a heavy Lean focus, so I'm sharing it here with you today. My guest is...

How to Spread Kindness — Not Negativity — On LinkedIn

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Mark's note: I try to be a kind person. I sometimes get provoked, especially online. Wait, that's blaming. I sometimes get combative, online. I...

The “Founding Mothers” of the “Women in Lean”

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Scroll down for info, transcript, how to subscribe, and more My guests for Episode #411 are the co-founders or "founding mothers" of the group called...

Why “Hesitant” is a Better Word Than “Resistant” for Vaccines or...

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Words matter, as do our approaches to leading change and influencing others. The word "hesitant" has been in the news a lot recently, in...

Oscars Ratings Down 20% — A Data Point Worth Reacting To?...

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Original Blog Post from 2020: An update from 2021 is at the bottom of this updated post Another year, another evening of the Academy Awards, a.k.a....

Creating a Culture of Learning From Mistakes at The Raymond Corporation

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You might remember this Lean Blog Interviews podcast episode that I did last year with Keith Ingels from The Raymond Corporation, a Toyota Industries...

Interview With the First American Woman to Work for Honda in...

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I don't share every episode of "My Favorite Mistake" here (but I do hope you'll subscribe and listen). As a reader of this blog,...

Zoom Out For The Whole Picture

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Mark's note: Today's post is something I asked my friend Brian Buck to write up here. He wrote one previous guest post back in...

Keith Champion on the Lucid (Motors) Production System

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Scroll down for info, videos about Lucid Motors, how to subscribe, and more My guest for Episode #410 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is...
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