Tag: Leadership

Last Wednesday, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I gave a webinar for Gemba Academy titled Leadership Behaviors that Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement. You can...

Listen It's great to have Dr. John Toussaint back for episode #184 of the podcast (see links to previous episodes below). He is, of course,...

I just read Dr. Atul Gawande's latest piece in the New Yorker: "Slow Ideas:  Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones...

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

There's a great piece, currently available for free on the HBR website, about continuous improvement: The Culture to Cultivate The author, George Halvorson, is the recently...

A Lean thinking friend's wife had emergency surgery (she is going to be fine) and my friend sent some pictures of Lean-related things he...

It's always sad then these national employee engagement surveys come out... the latest one from Gallup doesn't paint a pretty picture: "Most workers hate...

Listen Joining me for Podcast #178 is Drew Greenblatt, President and Owner of Marlin Steel Wire Products, a manufacturing company based in Baltimore. I was...

A Toyota employee, pictured at left, pulls an andon cord in a video shared by Toyota UK:  Factory to Forecourt - Introduction to the...

Dr. Delos ("Toby") Cosgrove, President and CEO of the famed Cleveland Clinic, wrote an article on LinkedIn recently: "Patient Experience: Time for Hospitals to...

Last week at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I really enjoyed the presentation by Jamie Bonini,  General Manager of the  Toyota Production System Support...

Listen My guest for Podcast #177 is a returning guest, Bob Emiliani. In this episode, we're talking about one of his latest eBooks: Nobody Is...