Tag: Deming

Starting With the Grand-Daddies of Quality A few years back I developed a blog series titled, "The Grand-Daddies of Quality"-- my goal was to delve...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Health Care Workers Protect Us. It's Time To Protect Them.  Great article...

My guest for Episode #368 is somebody I've met fairly recently through his excellent posts on LinkedIn, Steve Feltovich. He is the president of SJF...

My guest for Episode #366 is Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative. We talk about "reshoring," in general, and why that's such an...

There's a very well known cartoon that you might have seen where a caveman offers round wheels to other cavemen who are pulling a...

I was honored to be asked to participate in a supplement that was published by the journal The International Journal for Quality in Healthcare....

My guest for episode #356 of the podcast is Amy C. Edmondson, PhD, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Does Lean "work" in hospitals in the US?  Sort of, according to the Journal of Healthcare Management.  There is evidence...

Monday was the first day of my fifth Lean study trip to Japan. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to once again visit a Toyota...

My guest for episode #349 is John Dyer, president of his consulting firm, John Dyer & Associates, Inc., and author of the new book, The...

General Jim Mattis has been making the rounds to talk about his new book that is out today: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead. "Learning...

After the last episode that had the first guest host (Chris Burnham), I'm once again joined by Jamie Flinchbaugh for another "Lean Whiskey" podcast. In...