In Tribute to and in Memory of Dr. Michel Tétreault
I was very saddened earlier to receive an email from an employee of a great leader, Dr. Michel Tétreault, informing me that he had passed away. Michel was, since 2005, the CEO of St. Boniface General ...
17 Sep 20157min
Are Millennials the Only Ones Who Need to Understand Why?
And the idea of knowing why... again that's an old desire. It's not just a recent discovery of Simon Sinek and the outstanding book Start with Why (my friends at Gemba Academy have a podcast interview...
16 Sep 20154min
Stuff I'm Reading Sept 2015: Urgency, Problems, and Lemmings
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9 Sep 20156min
Football, Holistic Systems, and Challenging the
Today, I discuss two articles: The first article is: "The NFL's Best Practice: No Wasted Time." "If You Can't Hire Urban Meyer, Can You Clone Him?" http://leanblog.org/audio91
3 Sep 20158min
Another Conversation About L.A.M.E. and Lean
http://leanblog.org/audio90 It's far too common to see somebody with just a little bit of understanding about Lean do things that really shouldn't be described as Lean at all... in terms of the decis...
31 Aug 201510min
Inc. Writes About Dr. Deming in 1987
I stumbled across an article from the Inc. magazine archives from 1987, so it's today's "Throwback Thursday."In 1987, I was starting high school and that was probably right about the time when my dad,...
27 Aug 20156min
Updating "Lean Hospitals" and a New eBook, "Practicing Lean"
Mark Graban talks about the revised 3rd edition of "Lean Hospitals" and a new eBook project called "Practicing Lean."
24 Aug 20156min
So-Called "Just in Time" Retail Staff Scheduling is not #Lean
Stories like this have been in the news before, but this was circulating the past few days: "Why erratic schedules are one of the worst parts of low-wage work."The story refers to so-called "just-in-t...
22 Aug 20156min
