Tag: Leadership
Interview With Former CEO Paul O’Neill on Safety for Workers and...
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I have a very special guest for Podcast #124 - he is Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary from 2001 to 2002 and former...
Horrible Bosses – The Movie and Real Life Stories
Did anybody see the new movie, the comedy "Horrible Bosses" this weekend? If so, leave a comment and let us know what you thought...
Beware the Wrong Gemba Walk: Avoiding Top-Down Mistakes in Lean Leadership
This is always a tongue-in-cheek warning, but there are times when I warn hospital leaders that they have to be careful when going to...
Dr. Mrinalini Gadkari on the Ohio State Healthcare MBOE Program –...
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Today's episode is a discussion with Mrinalini Gadkari, a Senior Lecturer at the Fisher College of Business. Today, we're talking about the new Master...
A Thoughtful Commencement Message from Stephen Colbert
I'm a proud graduate of Northwestern University, industrial engineering class of 1995. Our '95 commencement speaker was the newly installed president of the university......
Beware Your Leadership Shadow
Last week, at the 2nd annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I moderated the CEO Panel discussion that featured four excellent Lean leaders: Jim FitzPatrick...
“Like Lean” – NY Jets Coach Rex Ryan
I heard a story on NPR last week profiling New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan, "In Football And Life, Ryan Plays Like He...
Free White Paper on Strategy Deployment in Healthcare
In conjunction with our newly released DVD on strategy deployment in healthcare, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value has released a new white paper...
Everybody Deserves Workplace Respect – Even the T.S.A.
As somebody who flies about 75,000 miles a year, I am far too acquainted with the Transportation Security Administration and their annoyances (to the...
Talk Preview – “Why Your Hospital Should be Like a Factory…...
When hospital people say they don't want to be a factory or "we don't want assembly-line medicine," the statement often goes unchallenged. What is...
HealthLeaders Article: Systemwide Process Improvement
It's great to see Lean mentioned in mainstream healthcare management publications, such as the article in HealthLeaders (print and online) called "Systemwide Process Improvement."...
Guest Post: “Soft Skills”: From Spongy to Solid
Inspired by Mark's recent posting on More Trust, Less Fear and an upcoming conference panel that I'm a part of, I thought a continuation...