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 latest book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, a recipient of the Shingo Publication Award. He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean, previous Shingo recipients. Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.

A Surgical Mistake and the Pressure to Lie and Cover It...

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I don't post every episode of the My Favorite Mistake podcast here, but my latest episode (#70) will have a strong appeal to readers...

Instead of Blaming the Worker, Look at Psychological Safety

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I recently wrote a post for the Value Capture blog that you might be interested in: Psychological Safety Means It's Safe to Ask for Help...

Lean Whiskey #27: Lean Coffee: Pour Over Edition & Some Inventory...

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In Episode 27, Mark and Jamie switch things up a bit with a morning recording of the show. While we could have just started...

Ryan Weiss on Purpose + People + Process = Performance; Modernizing...

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Scroll down for video, how to subscribe, video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #414 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is Ryan Weiss....

Improvements to the Covid Vaccination Process — Small and Large (and...

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In this era of Covid--19 vaccination, I'm still pretty much sidelined and not on site with any clients, although I did get to visit...

Why Samantha Riley Prescribes “Making Data Count” in the NHS England...

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Scroll down for video, how to subscribe, video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #413 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is Samantha Riley,...

Evolving Lean Metrics: Why Process Behavior Charts Outperform Red-Green Charts

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tl;dr summary: This post challenges the traditional use of red-green binary charts in tracking performance and promotes Lean Process Behavior Charts. It emphasizes the...

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...
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