Tag: Respect for People

It's nice to see examples of Lean Healthcare success in the news, this time on the front page of the Denver Post -- "Denver...

Forgive me if some Texas pride comes through in this post, as well as some former-client pride. The clinical laboratory team at Children's Medical...

Today's edition of The New York Times has an outstanding article about Lean Healthcare and what Seattle Children's Hospital calls C.P.I. or Continuous Performance...

Mark's note: Today's post is from a relatively new friend of my blog, introduced initially through our mutual friend, Jamie Flinchbaugh. Ankit Patel, today's...

Mark's note: Today's vacation guest post is from D. Mark Jackson, a lawyer who has been studying and embracing Lean principles in a California...

If you've been anywhere near a TV lately, you've probably heard and seen this hypnotizing "What is iPad?" commercial (YouTube link). The announcer breathlessly...

Last week, I published Part 1 of my notes about a breakfast talk by Dr. Brent James at the Shingo Prize Conference. https://www.leanblog.org/2010/05/notes-from-dr-brent-james-at-the-shingo-prize-part-1/ One of the...

Listen: Episode #91 is a very special one-on-one conversation that I had with Dr. Stephen Covey, recorded at the Shingo Prize Conference in Salt Lake...

Mark's note: I'm happy to welcome a relatively new friend,  Mike Stoecklein, as a guest author here on my Lean Blog. We have shared...

I was recently in Toronto and I heard a story on an AM news station that really caught my ear. I have searched on...

Noted patient safety expert Dr. Lucian Leape spoke out recently about medical school culture being a root cause of poor quality (see my blog...

As an American, and a Red Wings fan, it pains me, in a way, to write about Sidney Crosby and the Canadian team's overtime...