Tag: Healthcare

Here's a great essay from Tom Peters, a chapter from his book The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE. The email that was...

I had a good long chat with a former client (from my J&J days) the other day. I call him "The Synthesizer," and no...

I don't often do a "cranky blog post" but Ive got a head cold (as I write this on 9/30) and I've gotten sucked...

One of the books that's had the biggest impact on my work is Donald Wheeler's Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos. It's the...

When I read John Seddon's book Freedom from Command & Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service, I was a fan. I thought, "Here is...

Thanks to FierceHealthcare.com for publishing my guest article on the front page of their site: "How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs." The article features...

Again, I'm very happy to host the Carnival for  John Hunter and his  Curious Cat blog. My job here is to share some noteworthy...

It's time for another in my Reader Questions series, this question comes from Brian via email. If you have a question or topic that...

In what looks like a badly Photoshopped cover - it's a real photo, I've confirmed - INSIGHT Magazine, a Wisconsin business publication, has an...

Reminder: I'll be on "The Lean Nation" today at 4 PM (more details) In this article about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, "Inside Mark Zuckerberg's (rather...

Here is the latest in my "Week in Review" series for the week ending 9/26/10, featuring stories about a Toyota tour, a Don Berwick...

I was a supporter of Dr. Donald Berwick's nomination to head CMS (Medicare and Medicaid at a federal level) - not due to politics...