Tag: Leadership

Paul O’Neill Video, Speaking to Healthcare Leaders on Quality

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Here's a great video of Paul O'Neill, former CEO of Alcoa and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, talking to healthcare leaders about their leadership role...

April Fool: Back to the Future: Hospital CEOs and Virtual Reality...

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Every few years, we see news articles about virtual reality robots that will roam hospital hallways - delivering medicines or supplies or allowing remote...

ASQ Influential Voices: Selling Quality?

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In this month's "ASQ Influential Voices" series, ASQ President Paul Borawski asked, "How Do You "Sell" Quality?," particularly to senior execs and CEOs. Paul...

94% of Problems Are Really Caused By… Chuck Norris?

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Since the webinar I'm doing later today for Gemba Academy (Using SPC to Make Better Management Decisions) allows me to cite the late great...

Thoughts on Patient Safety Awareness Week

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March 4 to 10 has been "Patient Safety Awareness Week" from the National Patient Safety Foundation. I'm certainly in favor of patient safety and have...

Management Lessons from Zingerman’s CEO Ari Weinzweig

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It was a very pleasant surprise that ASQ chose Ari Weizweig, a founder and CEO of Zingerman's Deli (and other businesses) in Ann Arbor,...

WSJ: How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the...

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Last Thursday's Journal had a story titled "How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the Front Lines." The article talks about senior...

Mental Models and How We View the Gemba & Workers: GM...

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Regular readers know I started my career at General Motors from 1995 to 1997. After graduate school at MIT, I took a job at...

Podcast #136 – Paul Akers, Interview About His Book ‘2 Second...

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Our guest for episode #136 is Paul Akers, President of FastCap and author of the book 2 Second Lean. Here, we are talking about...

Guest Post: Is your management system the constraint in Kaizen?

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Mark's note: Today's guest post by Bart Sellers is a timely contribution to follow up to  yesterday's post about the ThedaCare Business Performance System...

ThedaCare’s “Business Performance System” – and a 10% Target

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One of the most powerful thoughts in the book On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry  (by John Toussaint...

A Lean Lesson from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, this quote caught my eye from one of Dr. King's Letters from a Birmingham...