Tag: CEO

Upcoming Podcast Interview with former GM Exec Bob Lutz

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As someone who started his career in the auto industry, I'm excited to be interviewing a modern auto-industry legend on Friday for an upcoming...

MD or MBA as CEO? Wrong Question?

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As I've worked with different hospitals and different leaders, I've sometimes wondered if there's been a study on the differences in results between hospitals...

Interview With Former CEO Paul O’Neill on Safety for Workers and...

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Listen I have a very special guest for Podcast #124 -  he is Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary from 2001 to 2002 and former...

Beware Your Leadership Shadow

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Last week, at the 2nd annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I moderated the CEO Panel discussion that featured four excellent Lean leaders: Jim FitzPatrick...

Summit 2011: Lean Transformation Videos from St. Boniface Hospital

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We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along...

ThedaCare CEO Dr. Dean Gruner Discusses Strategy Deployment and Their Lean...

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Produced in partnership with the Healthcare Value Network, episode #119 is a discussion with Dean Gruner, MD, the president & CEO of ThedaCare. Here, we talk about Strategy Deployment as a Lean management system and how it fits into their ongoing management and improvement efforts in their health system.

Free White Paper on Strategy Deployment in Healthcare

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In conjunction with our newly released DVD on strategy deployment in healthcare, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value has released a new white paper...

Check Out the Healthcare Value Network Podcast Series

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One of my projects with LEI and the Healthcare Value Network is a podcast series I am hosting featuring leaders from our various Network...

A Chance for Learning and Mentoring in DFW – Industry and...

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I want to tell you about an event I'm helping to plan for people in the DFW area. This is a small, by-invitation event,...

Podcast #102 – Ron Wince, CEO of Guidon Performance Solutions –...

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My guest for Episode #102 is Ron Wince, the President/CEO of Guidon Performance Solutions. We talk here about his views on lean healthcare and...

A Breath of Lean Positivity – Paul Akers and FastCap

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I had an amazing conversation on Saturday with Paul Akers (pictured at left), the founder and president of FastCap, a company in Washington, a...

The CEO as 24×7 Expeditor? That’s Not Good

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The traditional model of business leadership has the CEO as the most important decision maker. Generally, the higher up you go, leaders make more...