Tag: Audio

A Lean Guy Reads the Boston Papers: Facts, Respect, and Baseball...

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My wife and I were in Boston over the weekend, as it was her fifth reunion from her MIT master's program. I'm also an...

First Look: “Management on the Mend” by Dr. John Toussaint

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At this year's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit (see my summary here) Dr. John Toussaint talked about and introduced his newly released book Management on the...

A Tale of Two Clinics – What I Wish My Primary...

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In American healthcare, there's a growing gap between hospitals and clinics that are being innovative and those who are stuck in the "way it's...

Says Jack Dorsey: It’s an “Organizational Failure” if the CEO Has...

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Jack Dorsey is well known among tech circles, as a co-founder of Twitter (he's @Jack) and, now, as the CEO of Square. I'm a...

Throwback Thursday: The Leadership Mantras of Don Davis

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It's been just about 18 years since I was leaving GM to start the master's program at MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing program (now called...

Lean: Hit or Myth? Layoffs, Patient-Centered Care, and More

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It's not uncommon to hear statements thrown around about Lean that are more of a myth than anything resembling reality. I remember the time a...

Lean in the Kitchen; Weekend Urgent Care for the NHS

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I hope y'all had a nice Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. It's a global audience for the blog, but I had the...

10 Key Lean Mindsets for Factories, Hospitals, Startups, and More

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Here's my latest post for LinkedIn through their "Influencers" series. It might be old hat to readers of this blog, but I hope what...

Gemba in the NICU: More Notes from our “Kaizen Live” Experience...

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In my first post about the on-site Kaizen learning experience at Franciscan St. Francis Health, an event I came to call "Kaizen Live," I...

U.S. Hospitals Have the Best E.R. Care for Kids, But Aren’t...

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There's been a back-and-forth of views about the state of pediatric emergency medicine recently in the Wall Street Journal. Let me start first, actually, with...

Another Experiment That Works in Healthcare: Safety Huddles

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Following up on yesterday's post on seemingly successful experiments with ACOs, here's another article, from HBR, on "safety huddles" in healthcare: "How Every Hospital Should Start...

An Experiment That Works in Healthcare: Pioneer ACOs

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You might be considered "wonky" for enjoying the topics discussed here at LeanBlog.org... but that's fine. This is a safe environment for being wonky...