Tag: Respect for People
An Inc. “Best Small Company Workplace” & Their Lean Culture
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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
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?”
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...
Everybody Deserves Workplace Respect – Even the T.S.A.
As somebody who flies about 75,000 miles a year, I am far too acquainted with the Transportation Security Administration and their annoyances (to the...