Tag: Quality

Quality: Leadership, Systems Thinking, and Continuous Improvement

Quality doesn’t come from inspection, pressure, or choosing between speed and accuracy. It comes from well-designed systems, capable processes, and leaders who focus on learning instead of blame. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on quality through a Lean and Deming lens—covering psychological safety, metrics, variation, leadership behavior, healthcare quality, and why sustainable improvement depends on fixing systems rather than managing people harder.

Stuff I’m Reading, April 2, 2012: CEOs as Team Players, Hospital...

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Here are links to some articles I've read recently that might be of interest: Can Hospital CEOs Be Team Players? (H&HN News) Preventing Hospital Blunders (Science...

Danger vs. Hysteria — “Pink Slime” & Medical Errors (and a...

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My friend Mike Thelen, who works in the dairy industry, has a guest post I'm going to publish next week talking about the seemingly...

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...

Dr. John Toussaint Video Lecture on Healthcare Quality & Lean

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Here is an hour-long lecture given by John Toussaint, MD - shared by the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. There isn't a lot of...

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,...

Weekend Fun – Quality Related Band Names

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I was driving the other day, listening to the 1980s music channel on XM Radio. The DJ announced a song by Duran Duran and...

The Fall and Rise of Automotive (and Healthcare) Quality

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One of my favorite newspaper writers is Ed Wallace of my local Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Wallace appears in the Sunday automotive section and usually...

One Problem with Healthcare Data

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This article caught my eye recently: "Canada leads in surgical mishaps." By "leads," the article means they have a high number of mishaps (which...

Webinar Recording from a University of Michigan Health System Lean Leader

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Yesterday, the MIT SDM program hosted a webinar by Dr. Jack Billi from University of Michigan. I had the good fortune to meet Dr....

ASQ Member Videos on Quality, Their Careers, and Their Lives

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As mentioned in Monday's post with Podcast #131 (Paul Borawski, CEO of the American Society for Quality), ASQ had a contest where members could...

Paul Borawski, the CEO of ASQ (American Society for Quality) on...

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Listen: My guest for episode #131 is Paul Borawski, the CEO of ASQ, the American Society for Quality. Today, we are talking about ASQ, their...
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