Tag: Leadership

This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate story from his sister, an emergency...

I believe that leaders need to lead by example. This was true in my "Lean manufacturing" days when a good plant manager would make...

Today, I'm sharing a preview (in podcast and transcript form) of a webinar that Steve Kane, from Gemba Academy, will presenting on April 8th...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions in healthcare is usually infeasible - the presentation of patients can be random...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability to raise risks without fear of reprisal.  This post from leanblog.org...

Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "We have a good people in a bad system".  Here's an excellent interview with Dr. Marty Makary, author of "The...

Thanks to Sara Thompson and Catalysis Inc. for asking me to write a blog post for them. If we can go "Beyond Heroes" (a...

Joining me today for episode #357 is Michael Conroy, M.D., the Chief Medical Officer of Sutter Medical Group in northern California. Mike was previously the...

I think that working to reduce patient harm (to improve patient safety) is one of the most important (and most noble) applications of Lean. Daily...

tl;dr summary: The blog post discusses the importance of reporting and solving problems for patient safety in Japan. It highlights stories from two hospitals...

The theme for the next couple of days on the blog is patient safety and the idea of "psychological safety" for employees or physicians...