Tag: Culture

There's a new TED conference video from April 2012 featuring Dr. Atul Gawande, author of amazing books including The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get...

Dr. W. Edwards Deming famously said that managers can't hope to motivate employees, as they can only hope to not demotivate them. I wrote...

Our guest for episode #136 is Paul Akers, President of FastCap and author of the book 2 Second Lean. Here, we are talking about...

Mark's note: Today's guest post by Bart Sellers is a timely contribution to follow up to  yesterday's post about the ThedaCare Business Performance System...

One of the most powerful thoughts in the book On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry  (by John Toussaint...

As I was cleaning out a pile of stuff in my office, I found an unread issue of Inc. magazine from June 2011. One...

Yesterday, the MIT SDM program hosted a webinar by Dr. Jack Billi from University of Michigan. I had the good fortune to meet Dr....

I was in Canada a few weeks back and two articles from the Globe and Mail newspaper caught my eye - stories from England...

Here's a nice video that popped up on YouTube from the Toronto-area University Health Network system, with healthcare professionals talking about how Lean has...

This has been sitting in my "to blog about" queue since March, but I wanted to catch up and post this article: "What Makes...

The articles from the July/August 2011 issue of Inc. Magazine aren't online yet, but there are two things I wanted to go ahead and...

Thanks to those of you who sent me the link to this Washington Post article called "The Pain of Wrong Site Surgery." The piece...