Visiting MIT, Learning about "The Good Jobs Strategy"
http://leanblog.org/audio62 Last week was an amazing week of learning and networking. I was in Dallas for the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit (as I wrote about). As I mentioned yesterday, it wa...
19 Kesä 201512min
A Lean Guy Reads the Boston Papers: Facts, Respect,
http://leanblog.org/audio61 My wife and I were in Boston over the weekend, as it was her fifth reunion from her MIT master’s program. I’m also an alum, but was considered a “guest” since I graduated ...
18 Kesä 20159min
First Look: "Management on the Mend" by Dr. John Toussaint
At this year's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit (see my summary here) Dr. John Toussaint talked about and introduced his newly released book Management on the Mend, a follow up to 2010's On the M...
15 Kesä 20156min
A Tale of Two Clinics - What I Wish My Primary Care Could Be
In American healthcare, there's a growing gap between hospitals and clinics that are being innovative and those who are stuck in the "way it's always been done" mode. For example, innovative primary c...
13 Kesä 201512min
Jack Dorsey: It's an "Organizational Failure" if the CEO
Jack Dorsey is well known among tech circles, as a co-founder of Twitter (he's @Jack) and, now, as the CEO of Square. I'm a frequent Twitter user (I'm @MarkGraban) and I also utilize the Square reader...
29 Touko 20156min
The Leadership Mantras of Don Davis
Don Davis, former CEO of Stanley Works, passed away in 2010 and left an unfinished book in progress. One of my friends (and former colleagues from Dell in the late '90s), Steve Cook and a number of ot...
28 Touko 20158min
Lean: Hit or Myth? Layoffs, Patient-Centered Care, and More
It's not uncommon to hear statements thrown around about Lean that are more of a myth than anything resembling reality.I remember the time a professor told a group that if Toyota ran a health clinic, ...
27 Touko 201512min
The Joy of (Waste Reduction and) Cooking
I love to cook and I"m the primary chef in my home. I often get asked a question - sometimes it’s serious and sometimes it’s smart-alecky - “Do you 5S your kitchen?” If by that, they mean, “Do you lab...
26 Touko 20159min
