Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement

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 Apr 20154min

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 Apr 20153min

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 Apr 20154min

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 Apr 20154min

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 Apr 20156min

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 Apr 20155min

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 Apr 201512min

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 Mar 20157min