Tag: Respect for People

A Lean Lesson from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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...

An Inc. “Best Small Company Workplace” & Their Lean Culture

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As I was cleaning out a pile of stuff in my office, I found an unread issue of Inc. magazine from June 2011. One...

What can Golf Cart do for you?

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Readers outside the U.S. might not know the UPS advertising slogan of "What Can Brown Do For You?" This often refers to the iconic...

A Good Lean Healthcare Journal Article with a Puzzling Title

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Thanks to the readers who sent this article my way and thanks to the authors for mentioning and citing my book, Lean Hospitals. The...

Waste & Respect for People in Hospice or a Dell Factory

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I've recently had an email exchange with a retiree who is volunteering in a non-profit hospice care facility. I'm sharing this thoughts with his...

My Article in “Hospital & Health Networks” on Waste in Healthcare

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After last week's piece on "putting the continuous back into continuous improvement," I had another article published this past week. This new article was published...

Horrible Bosses – The Movie and Real Life Stories

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Did anybody see the new movie, the comedy "Horrible Bosses" this weekend? If so, leave a comment and let us know what you thought...

Guest Post: The Chain of Improvement

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is from  Dr. Mark Jaben. I first met Mark in person at  Cindy Jimmerson's Lean Healthcare West conference in...

Time & Motion Studies Are Not “Discredited,” Just How They Are...

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First off, a huge thumbs up and thanks are due to Eric Ries and his thought-provoking "Startup Lessons Learned" conference on the "Lean Startup"...

Stop Demotivating Your Employees: W. Edwards Deming’s Timeless Wisdom That Applies...

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I'm always happy when the wisdom of Dr. W. Edwards Deming spreads in modern social media, almost 20 years after his passing. His message...

As Seen on TV: Random Lean Terms in Commercials

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On a recent Sunday morning, I was watching cable news channels and two different commercials had a word jump out at me, words that...

Guest Post: What is “Yokoten?”

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Mark's Note: Today's post is from Al Norval, with the firm Lean Pathways, Inc. In the Lean world, we hear all kinds of Japanese...
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