Tag: Kaizen
Why We Should All Consider Eric Ries’s “Employee’s Bill of Rights”
As you might know from episode #290 of my podcast with Eric Ries on Monday, his new book was released on Tuesday: The Startup Way: How...
Great Leaders Aren’t Threatened by Their Employees’ Ideas or Feedback
This Business Insider article caught my eye the other day:
A celebrity chef who owns 26 restaurants explains why he loves when employees shoot down...
#Lean Thoughts While Watching Football
I've blogged about football before - I should say "American football," since I have many international readers.
I should say I've blogged about events on the football field and the approaches of football coaches that remind me of Lean thinking.
Here are a few of those thoughts from last weekend -- topics include "lack of urgency," "that's not my job," and "the process."
Airplane Food: Flight Attendant Kaizen or a Violation of Standardized Work?
Today's blog post is about airplane food. It's not about the quality of airplane food... it's not an SNL Seinfeld-ish "what's the deal with...
The Coming Auto Industry Battle: Toyota’s People vs. Tesla’s Robots?
Here's an interesting article from Fast Company:
At Toyota, The Automation Is Human-Powered
The sub headline reads:
While the rest of the auto industry increasingly uses robots...
Great White Paper: “No More Projects” (or “More Than Projects”)
I really enjoyed and appreciated this new white paper that was written by Dr. Lisa Yerian and Nate Hurle from The Cleveland Clinic:
"No More...
Small Steps are the Best Path to Sustainable Big Results?
I am always happy to see something even vaguely related to the practice of Kaizen in mainstream publications. Here's a recent essay from the...
#TBT: Idea-Driven Organizations are Still a Great Idea
Today, we're looking back at a podcast that I did back in 2015 with Alan G. Robinson, PhD, co-author of many books including The Idea-Driven Organization....
Dr. Don Berwick on Respect and Change at the Front Lines...
Back in 2012, I blogged twice about aspects of Dr. Donald M. Berwick's 1989 article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in Health Care.” The full text is only available to subscribers.
As I posted on LinkedIn, another aspect of this article caught my eye when I was reviewing it the other day in advance of my talk at the Studer Group "What's Right in Healthcare" conference next week.
5 Years Since the Publication of “Healthcare Kaizen” – What’s Happened?...
One thing I like about Facebook is the way it reminds you about things that happened on this date in previous years. Facebook is...
Do you need to make it mandatory to participate in continuous...
Every month or two, Greg Jacobson, MD and I have an "Ask Us Anything" video discussion with questions submitted by members of our KaiNexus...
A Recommended Sequence of Podcasts and Webinars on Kaizen and Continuous...
I've produced A LOT of content about Kaizen and continuous improvement over the past 11 years, including podcasts and webinars. Somebody asked me to build a "curriculum" and a sequence of podcasts and webinars for people to watch as a way of getting educated about this approach. So this post is an attempt at that...
