Tag: Kaizen

As I did on Wednesday, I'm posting a quote that we collected for our upcoming book "Healthcare Kaizen," but this time it's a quote...

Update: I edited the post title to add "Or Does He?" See the CEO's comment below, suggesting that the TV report gave the wrong...

As I'm working hard this week to finish, with my co-author Joe Swartz, the manuscript for our upcoming book "Healthcare Kaizen," I'm not taking...

We've created and released our first in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a startup where I am the Chief Improvement Officer. We...

I've been trying to identify the source of this quote or maxim for my upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous...

I've recently had an email exchange with a retiree who is volunteering in a non-profit hospice care facility. I'm sharing this thoughts with his...

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."  - Robert Heinlein, American science...

Thanks to Quality Digest for publishing an article I co-authored with Gregory Jacobson, MD, a co-founder and the CEO of KaiNexus, a software startup...

One of the variations of my acronym L.A.M.E. is "Lean As Misguidedly Explained," and I recently ran across two fresh instances of this (and,...

One reason I love applying Lean thinking in new arenas as my career progresses is that each shift in industry leads to new challenges...

As regular readers know, I'm working on a second book: Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Improvements. My co-author, Joe Swartz, and I...

Did anybody see the new movie, the comedy "Horrible Bosses" this weekend? If so, leave a comment and let us know what you thought...