The Scripps Health CEO is Right About No-Layoffs Policies
Chris Van Gorder, CEO of Scripps Health in California, wrote this article in HBR back in January: "A No-Layoffs Policy Can Work, Even in an Unpredictable Economy."
20 Huhti 20154min
Why is the Hawthorne Effect Nothing to Brag About or Hope For?
Forgive me for being a bit of an Industrial Engineering geek here in this post. After all, my bachelor's degree is in Industrial Engineering, even though I sometimes get called "a healthcare guy" afte...
15 Huhti 20153min
Why Would These Workplace Slogans Be Offensive to Employees?
Dr. W. Edwards Deming advised against relying on slogans and posters as a way of trying to improve quality.Point 10 of his famed 14 points said: Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the w...
14 Huhti 20154min
Rhode Island's Governor Announces Lean Initiative,
http://leanblog.org/audio43 You might know my friend Karl Wadensten, the president of VIBCO, a small manufacturer in Rhode Island. I've interviewed him for episode #84 of my podcast series (which was...
13 Huhti 20154min
Throwback Thursday: 23 Tweets I Might Have Sent in 2002
have been going through some old papers recently and I found two sheets of paper with hand-written thoughts or "truisms" that I had scribbled down in early 2002. The word truism, it turns out, doesn't...
9 Huhti 20156min
What's Interesting About This Toyota Executive
http://leanblog.org/audio41' I hope you might have access to this interesting article from the Wall St. Journal: "Toyota Veteran Rises to Corporate Office From Factory Floor." I was able to access it...
7 Huhti 20155min
An Invention to Prevent Empty Gel or Foam Sanitizer
http://leanblog.org/audio40 Every time I am in a hospital or clinic setting, one of the first things I do is get a pump or squirt of gel or foam from a wall-mounted dispenser to clean my hands.Or, I ...
6 Huhti 201512min
10 More Reasons to Come See Kaizen at Franciscan
http://leanblog.org/audio39 Joe Swartz and I have been planning the first-ever workshop (a conference of sorts) where people can come see what a Kaizen culture, or a culture of continuous improvement...
31 Maalis 20157min
