Tag: Leadership
Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 7, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Healthcare innovation is prone to continuous pilots of improvements that are already proven and a half-hearted embrace of meaningful change. Sachin Jain,...
The One Where I was Interviewed on a Detroit Radio Station
I was invited to be a guest on a Detroit radio talk show that's hosted by Dr. Paul Reeves, a show called "Dr. Paul's...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 24, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Compelling people with evidence or demanding compliance does very little to drive adoption of new practices - handing out...
Podcast #342 – Adam Ward on Lean Design in Healthcare
My guest for Episode #342 of the podcast is Adam Ward, the author of Lean Design in Healthcare: A Journey to Improve Quality and...
Podcast #341 – Dr. Rob Hackett (@patientsafe3) on #TheatreCapChallenge &...
My guest for Episode #341 of the podcast is Dr. Rob Hackett, an anaesthesiologist in Sydney, Australia. Rob has become known around the world...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 10, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
A group of Winnipeg physicians is opening a clinic designed to treat non-emergent patients in an effort to reduce Emergency...
A Hospital CEO Who Wants Other CEOs to “Give a Damn”...
Here's an interesting column from Becker's Hospital Review, written by Michael Dowling, President and CEO, Northwell Health.
I'm guessing he created the headline, since the...
On Boeing, GM, and Hospitals… and Epic Battles Between Reality and...
Yesterday's blog post was about a situation (with my podcast hosting service) that triggered memories of my time at General Motors in 1995. Today's...
On Podcast Server Downtime, Scars from General Motors, and Taking Ownership...
Ever since I started podcasting in 2006, I've been using a company called "Hipcast" to be the "hosting" company for the podcast audio files...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: April 26, 2019
Ryan and I are co-sponsoring a workshop that I'll be presenting on "Measures of Success" in Winnipeg on May 10. Learn more.
Healthcare - Creating...
Podcast #340 – @JoyFurnival, Lean in NHS England
Joining me for Episode #340 of the podcast is Dr. Joy Furnival CEng MIET, an experienced senior NHS manager, improvement leader, and chartered engineer....
Is “Kaizen” a Slogan or a Methodology for the Seattle Mariners?
Here is an interesting article that a few people pointed me toward the other day about the Seattle Mariners team:
Mariners Sunday mailbag: Explaining the...