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Lean Blog Audio

Mark Graban reads and expands upon selected posts from LeanBlog.org. Topics include Lean principles and leadership in healthcare, manufacturing, business, and the world around us.Learn more at http://... Read more

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Standard Work for Being as Safe as Possible When Refueling Your Vehicle

Standard Work for Being as Safe as Possible When Refueling Your Vehicle

http://www.leanblog.org/audio305 It's possible that I could start traveling again for my healthcare consulting work next... Read more

19 May 2020

6mins

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Why Kaizen is an Important Differentiator for Japanese Whisky

Why Kaizen is an Important Differentiator for Japanese Whisky

This article caught my attention the other day, primarily because I like scotch, whisky (and whiskey and bourbon). The J... Read more

5 Mar 2015

7mins

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General Jim Mattis on Leadership, Mistakes, and Defining Problems

General Jim Mattis on Leadership, Mistakes, and Defining Problems

http://www.leanblog.org/audio287 General Jim Mattis has been making the rounds to talk about his new book that is out to... Read more

3 Sep 2019

8mins

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The Patriots, Coach Belichick, Aspects of Lean Thinking,

The Patriots, Coach Belichick, Aspects of Lean Thinking,

http://leanblog.org/audio15I have lived in Boston two different times, but I'm hardly a New England Patriots fan. I real... Read more

1 Feb 2015

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Jess Orr on What She Learned by Leaving Toyota

Jess Orr on What She Learned by Leaving Toyota

http://www.leanblog.org/audio291 Last week was our fifth annual KaiNexus User Conference (or "KaiNexicon" as we now call... Read more

11 Oct 2019

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On Boeing, GM, and Hospitals… and Epic Battles Between Reality and Spokespeople?

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 Gene... Read more

30 Apr 2019

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Bob Lutz on Tesla, Threats, & Communication About Quality - and Implications for Healthcare

Bob Lutz on Tesla, Threats, & Communication About Quality - and Implications for Healthcare

http://www.leanblog.org/audio282 Hat tip to Stan Feingold from StoreSMART (a Lean Blog sponsor) for sending me this arti... Read more

18 Aug 2019

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Putting Up Signs and Shooting Down Ideas

Putting Up Signs and Shooting Down Ideas

It's sad and unfortunate when leaders SAY they want a culture of continuous improvement, but don't walk the walk.--- Sup... Read more

19 Jan 2015

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Family Guy Skewers Marie Kondo (and 5S and Lean too?)

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 Or... Read more

13 May 2019

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Inside Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line - Flexibility and Kaizen

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 v... Read more

11 Jun 2019

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A Hospital CEO Who Wants Other CEOs to “Give a Damn” About Their People

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 Hea... Read more

1 May 2019

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Lean: A Combination of "Why?" and "Why Not?"

Lean: A Combination of "Why?" and "Why Not?"

http://www.leanblog.org/audio281 When we have really sticky, complicated problems (like the widespread healthcare patien... Read more

16 Aug 2019

7mins

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Maybe "Just Do Its" Should be Called "Just PDSA Its"?

Maybe "Just Do Its" Should be Called "Just PDSA Its"?

http://www.leanblog.org/audio290 So, upon some reflection, it seems like "Just Do It" isn't really the right phrase to u... Read more

8 Oct 2019

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How PBCs (Process Behavior Charts) Can Enhance the Practice of OKRs (Objectives & Key Results)

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 companie... Read more

20 May 2019

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Toyota, Respect for People (or "Humanity") and Lean

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... Read more

25 May 2019

9mins

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My Talk: When Being Right is the Wrong Strategy for Change

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 ea... Read more

17 May 2019

36mins

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What Chefs and Restauranteurs Say About Learning From Failures & Mistakes

What Chefs and Restauranteurs Say About Learning From Failures & Mistakes

http://www.leanblog.org/audio283 Anyway, this article caught my eye the other day: Top Chefs and Restaurateurs on the Be... Read more

20 Aug 2019

4mins

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Our Toyota Tour Guide's Kaizen

Our Toyota Tour Guide's Kaizen

From 2014 -- http://www.leanblog.org/audio293 We had an excellent English-speaking tour guide for our visit (she lived i... Read more

23 Nov 2019

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"Lean Sigma" is Still Pretty Often Wrong on Lean

"Lean Sigma" is Still Pretty Often Wrong on Lean

Here's look back at a post from 2011 that talks about some of the misunderstandings that are thrown around about Lean an... Read more

29 Jan 2015

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When Old Habits and Old Science No Longer Make Sense - Evidence vs. Habit in Medicine and #Lean

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 evid... Read more

16 May 2019

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