Lean Blog Audio — My Post for the Deming Institute Blog:
I’m extremely honored that The W. Edwards Deming Institute published my first blog post in a series of three that I’ve written for them, to be published over the next …
Lean Blog Audio — What the World’s Best Organizations…
Before Christmas, I was listening to the Dan Le Batard Show and their guest for the day was former NFL player Domonique Foxworth, pictured at left. Foxworth earned an MBA …
Lean Blog Audio — My Visit to Cleveland Clinic
I had a chance to visit one of their community hospitals, Hillcrest Hospital, as well as the main campus. It was a very stimulating visit and it was great to …
Lean Blog Audio — Food for Thought on Mistakes and Perfection
“Making mistakes is better than faking perfection.”I saw this quote the other day and tweeted it. It seemed like food for thought and something to reflect on for a new …
Lean Blog Audio — Examples of Corporate Speak Masking Reality
http://www.leanblog.org/audio165 I get annoyed by corporate euphemisms, such as referring to people as “resources,” the term “right-sizing” for layoffs, and the type of jargon and babble parodied in the Weird …
Lean Blog Audio — Bringing Me Problems is OK, We’ll Find Solutions Together
It’s a bit of a modern management cliché to say “Don’t bring problems! Bring me solutions!” I think what that means is “Don’t just complain! Think about improving things!” It’s …
Lean Blog Audio — #TBT: What CFO Magazine Wrote About #Lean in 2009
I first blogged about this article back in 2009 and it’s still online:”Keen to Be Lean” The sub headline talks about hospitals being “desperate to cut costs.” Has that changed? …
Lean Blog Audio — Human Nature Around Incentives & Rewards
http://www.leanblog.org/audio162 Dr. W. Edwards Deming used to warn against replacing intrinsic motivation with extrinsic rewards and incentives.Brian Joiner (author of Fourth Generation Management), who worked with Deming, warned that setting …
Lean Blog Audio — “The reign of the king-leader is gone” at GM?
I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover of the Northwestern University alumni magazine.See this profile and story: …
Lean Blog Audio — Lean People Don’t Say Things Like “Idiot Proofing”
In the Lean approach, we don’t call people idiots or dummies. We don’t say, or shouldn’t say, things like “idiot proofing” or “dummy proofing.”There’s an old Toyota story about how …