Tag: Culture
A First-Person Lean Leadership Story from John Toussaint, MD
I've had the pleasure to work with Dr. John Toussaint, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, over the past year. John's...
Lean Leads to Green, Which Supports Lean
Forgive me if some Texas pride comes through in this post, as well as some former-client pride. The clinical laboratory team at Children's Medical...
Ships Passing in the Night – China Builds U.S. Factories
In an era where it was a "no brainer" to move factories to China, chasing cheap labor, the Lean world has often spoken out...
Right Method, Wrong Culture
I heard a great line from an Emergency Department doc and physician leader yesterday. Talking about his hospital's Lean efforts, he said, simply:
"Data should...
Lessons from a “Like Lean” Millionaire
Listen to my podcast with Nick
One of my blog themes is the idea of "Like Lean" - practices that seem very much like the...
Toyota article from 1997 – the “Soul” of TPS that’s hard...
How Toyota Defies Gravity
In doing some research for an upcoming presentation, I found this FORTUNE article from 1997. I was looking for a reference...
Mike Hoseus Webinar on Toyota Culture
Industry Week Webinar - To RegisterTechnical note: I've been having some problems where "leanblog.org" gives a "404 not found" error, but "www.leanblog.org" works just...
Enhancing Patient Care with Lean Principles: The Chugachmiut Story in Alaska...
LeanBlog Podcast Episode #71 is part two of a conversation with Patrick Anderson, the Executive Director of Chugachmiut, the Tribal consortium created to promote...
Medical Errors in Hospitals Still Occur at Alarming Rate
It has been over 10 years since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's study on preventable medical errors: To Err Is Human: Building...
Bad News not Flowing Either Direction at GM?
Last week, I blogged about an episode where bad news wasn't flowing up in Boeing (or, it's part of a pattern).
In my Sunday morning...
How Does Your Team React to a New Person?
I 've mentioned here, I think, that I was in The Netherlands earlier in June for almost a week. I was invited to speak...
Bad News Not Flowing Up at Boeing?
Tomorrow's blog post today... not that anyone will be reading anything non-Michael Jackson related. RIP. A modern tidbit... I learned about the news via...
