Tag: Leadership

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

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...

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

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...

As I wrote about after his death, I am appreciative of the products and services that Steve Jobs brought to the world.  That said,...

The more I visit different hospitals, the more I tend to roll my eyes at the different signs that aim to remind staff and/or...

Becker's Hospital Review published a piece about the first 10 years of Lean at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center:  10 Years Later: Virginia Mason...

Here is an article from HealthLeaders Media about the Transforming Care at the Bedside  program: "Rural Oregon Hospitals Implement Frontline Caregiver Program." TCAB is...

Hat tip to Dan Markovitz for pointing out this excellent post on John Toussaint's blog: "The Key Leadership Behaviors in a Lean Organization?" The...

I was happy to attend the first football game of the year for my alma mater, Northwestern, as they defeated Boston College last Saturday....

Thanks to Andrew Bishop for posting a link to this article the other day. The New York Times had an article on Sunday titled,...

I was going through some old notes I've taken when visiting different hospitals and I came up with this quote from a healthcare professional: "I've...