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By Mark Graban

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Lean Blog Audio — 280: When Having a Process Improvement Idea Means You’re Weak?

http://leanblog.org/audio280 I guess I’m wired for improvement. Or, it’s just become a habit. Or, it’s both. I celebrate moments when I can identify an opportunity for improvement in my work. …

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Lean Blog Audio — 279: Come See a Culture of Continuous Improvement at Franciscan Health This October!

http://www.leanblog,org/audio279 Registration is open for “Kaizen Live!” — the 2019 edition. Joe Swartz and I are excited to announce that we are hosting the fourth site visit to his organization, …

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Lean Blog Audio — 278: Inside Toyota’s Takaoka #2 Line – Flexibility and Kaizen

This is an interesting article: Inside Toyota’s Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line In The World I had a chance to visit the ‘Takaoka #1″ line in February 2018 …

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Lean Blog Audio — 277: Toyota, Respect for People (or “Humanity”) and Lean

From 2013 — http://www.leanblog.org/audio277 A principle that has been often discussed (and hopefully practiced) in the Lean community over the past few years is usually described as “respect for people.” …

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Lean Blog Audio — 276: How PBCs (Process Behavior Charts) Can Enhance the Practice of OKRs (Objectives & Key Results)

https://leanblog.org/audio276 “Over the past year, I’ve heard about the “OKRs” methodology that is used in tech companies like Google. OKRs stands for Objectives & Key Results. The approach (along with …

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Lean Blog Audio — 275: My Talk: When Being Right is the Wrong Strategy for Change

I always enjoy the KaiNexus User Conference (now called KaiNexicon starting this year) and they ask me to give a talk each year. Last year, I gave a talk called …

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Lean Blog Audio — 274: When Old Habits and Old Science No Longer Make Sense – Evidence vs. Habit in Medicine and #Lean

http://www.leanblog.org/audio274 I find it really interesting when scientific facts and truth get superseded by new evidence. Science isn’t supposed to be stubborn… it’s OK to cast aside the old status …

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Lean Blog Audio — 273: Family Guy Skewers Marie Kondo (and 5S and Lean too?)

I haven’t read it, but Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing has been a pop-culture phenomenon the past few years. …

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Lean Blog Audio — 272: A Hospital CEO Who Wants Other CEOs to “Give a Damn” About Their People

Here’s an interesting column from Becker’s Hospital Review, written by Michael Dowling, President and CEO, Northwell Health. I’m guessing he created the headline, since the phrase “give a damn” doesn’t …

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Lean Blog Audio — 271: On Boeing, GM, and Hospitals… and Epic Battles Between Reality and Spokespeople?

Yesterday’s blog post was about a situation (with my podcast hosting service) that triggered memories of my time at General Motors in 1995. Today’s post is about a recent article …

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