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Habitual Excellence

Habitual Excellence — 107: Defining a Great Health Care Leader – A National Innovator Leverages a Dual Role

In this episode of the Habitual Excellence Podcast, Ken Segel talks with Dr. Tracey Hoke of UVA Health about her journey from pediatric cardiologist to healthcare executive and her role …

Lean Blog Interviews

Lean Blog — 548: Emily Swaney on OhioHealth’s Lean Management System

How does a Lean team of 11 people support a management system for 35,000 associates? Emily Swaney, Vice President of Operational Excellence at OhioHealth, explains that the team spends its …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 368: Eric Dingler on Hiding Bad News Until He Had a Fix

Eric Dingler and his wife met every week to review the numbers in their business. When they moved to Costa Rica, they paused that meeting for what was supposed to …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 367: Leading People Who Know More Than You

Stephanie Mitchell came back from vacation and got called into the C-suite. They wanted her to run the hospital laboratory temporarily. She was an ICU nurse who had moved into …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 366: Why Good Work Doesn’t Speak for Itself

Dr. Jonathan Thorp spent a career building systems, methods, and models that made work more functional. His mistake was assuming that creating the value was where the work stopped. Promoting …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 365: She Opened an Office Her Firm Couldn’t Afford

Susan von Seggern handed the finances to her business partner and stopped looking at them. Then she decided their Los Angeles PR agency should open a New York office — …

Habitual Excellence

Habitual Excellence — How Emplify Health Leaders Use a High-Performance Operating Model to Drive Results for Today and Tomorrow

In this episode of Habitual Excellence, Ken Segel speaks with Heather Schimmers, President of Emplify Health, about leading through change while building a stronger, more unified health system. Heather shares …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 364: Why a Pilot Stayed Silent in the Cockpit: Steve Montague

Steve Montague had been flying for the airline about two years when he decided to let his captain be wrong. He was paired with a captain who shut him down …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 363: What a Magician Learned About Recovering From Mistakes with Michael Chaleff

Michael Chaleff took a year between the Navy and law school and spent it working as a restaurant magician — walking up to strangers who had been drinking, interrupting conversations …

My Favorite Mistake

My Favorite Mistake — 362: Why the Cheapest Supplier Is Rarely the Cheapest, with Carl Pradelli, CEO of Nature City

Carl Pradelli was 18 months into building a co-branded skincare line with the Home Shopping Network when the first production run came back wrong. Ingredients specified at five percent had …

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