Great Recent Lean Blog Posts

I have been pretty busy lately and haven’t had much time to write.  I hope you enjoy these blog posts because I think they are pretty great!

• Failure Isn’t Really Failure  by Jeff Hajek: How to learn when things don’t go as expected
• Lean Healthcare Featured in Sunday NY Times Business Page & I Got Quoted by Mark Graban: Great analysis and link to NY Tiimes article about the Lean journey at Seattle Children’s Hospital and other hospitals.
• Lean Healthcare – My wife burned herself and that is considered a pre-existing condition by Jon Wetzel: A first-hand patient account of what navigating healthcare insurance is like.
• The CEO Drives the Brand and the Culture by Pete Abilla: A great example of how a CEO drives culture through behaviours
• Multi-Tasking vs Waiting by Mark Rosenthal: This is about the choice to tolerate work disruptions or do something about them.
• Starting Lean Not From the Top by Lee Fried: There is somewhat of a debate about where to begin your Lean journey.  Start from the top or the middle?
• The Illusion of Knowledge by John Hunter: Certainty is risky.  Click the link to read more about it!
• The 12 Herculean Labors of Lean Leaders By Jon Miller: I love how Jon takes takes the challenges that Lean leaders face to an epic level.
• Are your Kaizen events sustainable step function improvement, or merely recovery? by Gary Bergmiller: This reminds me of Demming’s quote about how putting out fires is not improvement but just returning things back to the current state.
• “Do” Only Gets You Half the Way There, or…“No Pie for You!” by Mark Hamel: This is a post I still talk about with my colleagues almost a month later.  Outstanding perspective for Kaizen event pies.
• Lead From The Front and The Back by Simon Sinek: This article really points out how to practice the Respect For People principle.
• 5 (Other) Reasons To Go To The Gemba by D. Mark Jackson: I always enjoy having more reasons to inspire people to go see the problem with their own eyes.
• Transparency – Crucial to Engagment by Matt Wrye: Contains a great metaphor for how to be transparent.

Keep on improving!

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