Tag: Practicing Lean

I'm excited to announce that our book Practicing Lean is now available as an audiobook through Audible. As we did with the paperback and Kindle...

I try to practice what I preach. I'm not perfect, but I do my best. Writing is fun for me, but I'm also the primary...

Our anthology book Practicing Lean has raised more than $4,000 for the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation. The book has been available as an eBook, a paperback, and an audiobook. Now that it has been available for a while and sales have slowed, I thought it might help promote the book (and the good cause it supports) to make the audiobook chapters available, over time, as a podcast.

Today's podcast is a departure from the usual interview format. As I blogged about last week, the Lean community has lost a young, thoughtful, inquisitive, and reflective member -- Samuel Selay. I regret not having Sam on the podcast to talk about our learning and reflections. He was a guest of Ron Pereira's on the Gemba Academy podcast in 2016, talking about Lean in the Department of Defense. Today, I'm doing a reading of a blog post that Sam wrote for this site back in August. I'm also sharing the audiobook version of his chapter from the book Practicing Lean (which is read by our audiobook narrator). It's not his voice, but it's his words and thoughts. As the Marines say (Sam was an active duty Marine for 13 years), Semper Fi.  There is a GoFundMe page that was set up by Sam's sister-in-law to provide financial support to the family — his wife and four children under 18. I've donated and I hope you might consider doing the same. 

I really appreciate what the team at LeanPub.com does, with their approach to "Lean Publishing." I've published a few compilations of blog posts and...

Don't forget - you can enter for a chance to win a paperback version of the book through midnight tonight. I'm excited to announce that...

I'm speaking in Iowa today at a "Lean Healthcare Exchange" event hosted by the Iowa Lean Consortium. Please say hello if you're there and you're...

I was invited to give a talk at a gathering of improvement teams and Kaizen Promotion Offices within the NHS in England. It wasn't...

Happy Monday everyone. Regular readers know I took some time away from the blog in advance of the 4th of July holiday. I planned on...

I'm excited to announce that Practicing Lean is now available as an audio book... or least the first half is, but you can buy today.

A two-minute video from Jamie about the book and his chapter.

My guest for Episode #276 is a Lean consultant (although he might not prefer that term) and an author, A J (Andy) Sheppard. Andy is the author of The Incredible Transformation of Gregory Todd: A Novel about Leadership and Managing Change and also contributed a chapter to my Practicing Lean book project.