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My guest for Episode #372 is Karen Gaudet, author of the excellent book Steady Work, which was published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. In the...

Shout out and hat tip to Dan Markovitz for his excellent blog post: "WHEN LEADERS TORTURE THEIR EMPLOYEES" He makes a strong case that displaying three...

Listen My guests today are Darrell Damron and Hollie Jensen and we're talking about Lean in Washington state government. Darrell and Hollie are both state...

While I'd be the first to admit that my writing is not perfect and I certainly need a copy editor for my books, I...

I've recently been reading an enjoyable book by Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. The practice of Kaizen, of course,...

Our Kaizen Institute guide, Brad Schmidt (pictured above) talked to us on Monday about standardized work. He said, of the practice at Toyota, that...

Following up on my notes from Day 1, here are some notes and key points from Day 2 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit....

One of the variations of my acronym L.A.M.E. is "Lean As Misguidedly Explained," and I recently ran across two fresh instances of this (and,...

It's nowhere near as important as yesterday's topic of employee and patient safety, but my last two days of using the new Mac OS...

I really had a great learning experience at last week's LEI Lean Transformation Summit that was held here in Dallas. The event sold out...

Here's some weekend fun leading into the holiday season... I received a marketing email today from Starbucks that included a phrase that would jump...

I was traveling yesterday, so I read a number of blog posts that I kept open in my browser for my flight. I wrote...