Tag: CEO

Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 1

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Recently, I stumbled across something that's been out for about a year, a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...

A Test for Executive Candidates – It’s Time to Power Off...

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A few years ago, there was a lot of buzz about how a board should evaluate a potential job candidate by seeing how they...

Stuff I’m Reading: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly in...

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The list of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown... that inventory becomes a post like this.  Here are links to...

The CEO’s Role in Lean Transformation: Art Byrne, Former CEO of...

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My guest for podcast #158 is Art Byrne, author of the new book The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create...

Looking at Medical Mistakes – Learning and Preventing or Repeating?

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Working in healthcare, it's hard not finding stories about preventable errors. I keep hearing stories from friends and family - such as my relative...

Dr. Gary Kaplan, CEO of Virginia Mason, on Healthcare Morale

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It might only be free (brief registration required) for a limited time, but there's a great video of Dr. Kaplan (with his slides) talking...

Interview with Former ThedaCare Leader Kathryn Correia

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Here's a nice interview with Kathryn Correia, CEO of HealthEast in Minnesota, a former ThedaCare executive: "Lean approach at HealthEast." From the piece: Correia is a...

Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 2

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Following up on my notes from Day 1, here are some notes and key points from Day 2 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit....

CEO’s Lean Vision for Stanford Hospital

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Today's post is a link to a great interview with Amir Dan Rubin, the CEO of Stanford  Hospital & Clinics. I met Amir a...

Podcast #144 – CEO Dean Gruner, MD, Lean & Accountable Care...

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Episode #144 is a discussion with Dean Gruner, MD, the president & CEO of ThedaCare, talking about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and how ThedaCare is using this approach, along with Lean methods, to improve the coordination of care for patients.

Paul O’Neill Video, Speaking to Healthcare Leaders on Quality

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Here's a great video of Paul O'Neill, former CEO of Alcoa and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, talking to healthcare leaders about their leadership role...

Stuff I’m Reading, April 2, 2012: CEOs as Team Players, Hospital...

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Here are links to some articles I've read recently that might be of interest: Can Hospital CEOs Be Team Players? (H&HN News) Preventing Hospital Blunders (Science...
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