Tag: Leadership
Watching the Steve Jobs “Lost Interview,” Part 2
As I started writing about yesterday in Part 1, I recently viewed a lost video of Steve Jobs being interviewed in 1995. See this...
A Test for Executive Candidates – It’s Time to Power Off...
A few years ago, there was a lot of buzz about how a board should evaluate a potential job candidate by seeing how they...
Guest Post: Respect for People Goes in All Directions
Today's guest post is by Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for Podcast #145.
Most of the literature I read about "Respect for People"...
How Do You Find a Lean Healthcare Person?
Mark's Note: Today's guest post is from a great friend of mine and this blog, Dean Bliss, of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. Check out...
The CEO’s Role in Lean Transformation: Art Byrne, Former CEO of...
My guest for podcast #158 is Art Byrne, author of the new book The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create...
Stuff I’m Reading: September 21, 2012
The list of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown... that inventory becomes this post. Here are links to some varied...
Do You Foster Innovation? Ask Your Employees
Organizations that are most successful with Kaizen and continuous improvement don't have fancier boards or better software -- they have leaders who are more...
Labor Day Reflections for a Safer Week (and Years) Ahead
I didn't have a post yesterday because it was the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. While I'm not a "worker," in the...
Characteristics of Lean Leaders
Ted Stiles is one of the handful of key recruiters I know in the world of Lean healthcare. Disclosure: I recently joined the advisory...
Podcast #157 – Nick Sarillo, ‘A Slice of the Pie’ –...
Joining me for episode #157 is Nick Sarillo, founder of Nick's Pizza & Pub and author of the new book (out September 13) called...
The Two Root Causes of Everything?
One thing I have enjoyed in the past few years is meeting and working with more people with direct experience working at Toyota (including...
Looking at Medical Mistakes – Learning and Preventing or Repeating?
Working in healthcare, it's hard not finding stories about preventable errors. I keep hearing stories from friends and family - such as my relative...