Lean Blog Audio
Mark Graban
Lean Blog Audio features Mark Graban reading and expanding on LeanBlog.org posts. Explore real-world lessons on Lean thinking, psychological safety, continuous improvement, and performance metrics like Process Behavior Charts. Learn how leaders in healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond create cultures of learning, reduce fear, and drive better results.
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Episodes
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Oct 8, 2015 • 5min
How Kaizen & Continuous Improvement are Key to
Many of you don’t care about football, but you might find it interesting, as I did, to learn that Northwestern’s defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz is apparently a fan of Kaizen...
http://leanblog.org/audio100
Oct 4, 2015 • 8min
Donald Trump's Red Hat (and Other Politicians' Hats)
These Donald Trump hats (and hats for other candidates including Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush) are made by a Newark company, Unionwear. Lean is their strategy and their production system. That’s how they are competing against China.
http://leanblog.org/audio99
Sep 28, 2015 • 6min
"Learning to be Lean"
http://leanblog.org/audio98
There's a really good article that was published by Modern Healthcare as a special report, written by Sabriya Rice. Sabriya spent a week observing a rapid improvement event (RIE) at the Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in Illinois. It's an in depth article that, I think, very accurately reflects the reality that Lean is helpful, but the process isn't easy for a number of reasons.
Sep 24, 2015 • 4min
This Hospital CEO Was Never Going to Get Lean
I have many experiences in healthcare that I haven't blogged about. I try not to write posts that say, "Hey, you won't believe what happened yesterday," for a number of reasons. But, sometimes, my memory gets jogged and a story comes back to me. That's what I'm sharing today as a Throwback Thursday.
Sep 23, 2015 • 9min
Better Change Leadership as a Countermeasure
Having a model like this helps prevent errors, such as jumping to implement Lean tools before the organization understands WHY change is necessary. You have to engage and enroll people in change, not just force things on them.I am convinced that the ExperienceChange simulations, either Lakeview or GlobalTech, are a great way to learn and practice.
http://leanblog.org/audio96
Sep 21, 2015 • 7min
5S: The Good, the Bad, and the Extreme in Japanese Hospitals
My two previous trips to Japan have been incredible experiences, both personally and professionally. I'm planning to go back in December with a tour group I'm helping organize with Kaizen Institute. When people go to Japan, I think they are expecting to see perfect Lean practices. But, no...
Sep 17, 2015 • 8min
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 Hospital in Winnipeg.
Sep 16, 2015 • 5min
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 with him coming soon). Why are we doing something? Why are we starting this company? That's an old tale... are you breaking rocks or building a cathedral?
Sep 9, 2015 • 6min
Stuff I'm Reading Sept 2015: Urgency, Problems, and Lemmings
Visit http://www.leanblog.org/audio92 for more info on this post and http://www.leanblog.org/audio for information about how to subscribe through iTunes and other places.
Sep 3, 2015 • 8min
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
