Tag: Leadership

Stop Demotivating Me, Lean Style

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CIO Magazine Article Hat tip to Curious Cat for finding this and blogging about it first. I couldn't resist chiming in. The author...

Management’s Job is to be Proactive

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Running a hospital: Our Joint Commission Report The headline is my modification of a Deming expression, that management's job is prediction. Statistical process control was...

A Gemba Walk Example and Question: Strengthening Lean Leadership

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This is from a blog reader, Mike, in response to an earlier question about the role of senior leadership in a Lean effort. I'm...

Not Cutting Their Way to Greatness

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CEO's cost cuts feared too steepRadio Shack's best days are long behind them, apparently (that's not exactly breaking news). The most recent CEO,...

Bad Systems in the News: Detroit Public Schools

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I've fallen behind in my blogging the past few days, but I'll be back on track. I saw a number of news stories...

Reader Question: Role of a Company President?

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Since we've been talking about leadership and Lean, it's coincidence that I got this email from a reader. I'll let the blog readers...

Let’s Try a "5 Whys" Survey

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Following up on the LEI survey that was released and discussed here, I've been talking with a few folks offline about what the "root...

Survey Blames Blame for Lean Struggles

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The LEI is out with their annual survey (pdf) about our ongoing struggles implementing Lean, with articles (reprinting the press release) and blog posts...

Changing the Culture at Ford

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At Ford, the 'Outsider' Is Optimistic - WSJ.comThere's an interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally today, we've featured him before on the blog (click...

The First Lean Dentist

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I recorded my Podcast interview with Dr. Sami Bahri, "The First Lean Dentist," last night. What a treat it has been to talk...

Are You Really Asking?

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Here's one I came up with yesterday... having a discussion with supervisors about asking questions as leaders.There's different tones of voice and different intents,...

Improving the ER on "ER"

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YouTube - Improving the ER on ERI don't always watch the NBC show ER, but this portion caught my attention when my wife was...
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