Tag: Safety

Did you hear about the fireworks mishap in San Diego on the 4th? Instead of a planned 20-minute show, there was a "glitch" that...

I went through our new book  Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book... We have, by my count, 124 examples from...

After a week of serious topics and sometimes pointed discussion, let's end with a funny sign... well wait, there's a serious story behind this...

When I was leaving the recent Shingo Prize conference, last week, I had what can only be described as a taxi ride from hell...

Lean is not a "command and control" leadership and management model. The old command-and-control dynamic leads to so much poor quality and misery in...

Episode #113 is a discussion with Aubrey Daniels, PhD, the founder and chairman of his firm Aubrey Daniels International. Today, we are talking about...

I'm really excited that I'm going to be attending tomorrow's Northwestern football game that's being played at Wrigley Field, the legendary baseball stadium that...

I'll start the week with another post about my tour of the TMMTX (Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas) plant in San Antonio. Today I'll write...

This blog post is about my first visit to TMMTX in 2010.

Recently, I posted a video of a "daily huddle" meeting at Everett Clinic (not exactly the type of huddle pictured at left). Yesterday, in...

Today is a federal holiday in the United States, Labor Day. I know that's obvious to the 70% of you reading from the U.S.,...

Many of you may know of Paul O'Neill for the dramatic employee safety improvements at aluminum maker Alcoa and you may know of him...