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After an intense two months of travel for many exciting professional and personal opportunities – including being part of the ELEC 2017 in the Netherlands and a week of vacation...
Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC2017) held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. After not having been to Europe for over six years,...
I’ve been traveling a lot the past few weeks for work-related events and client support, which has been great for my business and personal practice of modeling and practicing the...
I have come to believe, through my personal practice and learning from mentors (including Margie Hagene, Isao Yoshino, John Shook, and others) that asking effective questions is THE fundamentally most...
My latest article for the Lean Enterprise Institute’s Lean Post was published today: “Do You Practice Routine Personal Development?” I’ve been musing a lot lately on the concepts of structures...
New book: The Lean Strategy As I mentioned in the Gemba Academy podcast released two weeks ago, the most recent business book that I have read is The Lean Strategy...
New book: The Lean Strategy As I mentioned in a Gemba Academy podcast released last week, the most recent business book that I have read is The Lean Strategy by...
Today Gemba Academy published a podcast that I recorded with Ron Pereira last week. Ron and I first started looking into recording a podcast together two years ago when I...
How many morning or “start-up” meetings have you been part of that are fun and invigorating? I bet none as energetic and the one that Tim Wolput and I participated...
When I was back in Japan last month for a visit – my second visit since moving back to the U.S. in June 2016 – I spent the day with...
Two weeks ago I was in Palm Desert for the annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit co-hosted by Catalysis and the Lean Enterprise Institute. It was the first time in many...
This week I’m attending the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, co-hosted by two of the organizations for which I’m a faculty member of – Catalysis and the Lean...
As I shared in previous posts, Toyota Memorial Hospital (TMH) has been practicing parts of the Toyota Production System (TPS) for many years. However, the depth
In the first post in a series of reflections from my visit to Toyota Memorial Hospital (TMH) in Toyota City, Japan, I declared that Toyota Memorial is
Leadership lessons in Toyota City – this time at Toyota Memorial Hospital Immediately after writing a post on the train asking for your questions, I met my
This past week I have been thinking a lot about the concept of coaching and what it means for us as leaders. I’ve spent time
I’m writing this post while on the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagoya. No matter how many times I travel on the bullet train – it
I’m finally back in Tokyo after a week of travel and site visits, followed by nearly two weeks in the United States and then a
It’s been a busy few weeks for me filled with great learning and travel! But all of this “doing” also means that I haven’t been
Last year I learned of a town in rural Japan that considers itself the “5S Mecca” of the world because of the entire town’s adoption of Japanese
Lean and Kaizen in Healthcare My most recent post about Lean in Japan and in Japanese hospitals has been a popular one and has generated many comments on social media
As a Lean healthcare practitioner and coach, it has been one of my goals while living in Japan to learn more about how Japanese hospitals think
Katie’s note: Today’s post is written by Arnout Orelio, a Lean healthcare practitioner from the Netherlands. The inspiration for this first guest post on my blog
One of the delights about living in Japan is the level of efficiency and punctuality of their transportation services. This extends beyond just people transportation
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