Question Transformation

Roger Schank wrote a book, The Creative Attitude: Learning to Ask and Answer the Right Questions: a few years ago that still is one of the better books that I have found on asking the right questions. From an Amazon review, “He describes how we think unconsciously using scripts. It is when this script fails do Read More …

The 4 Phases of Collaboration

Edison was genius, but not a lone genius. Sarah Caldicott documented that team work in the book Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab. I asked her about those 4 phases in a past podcast. Related Podcast and Transcription: Teamwork: The Edison Way An excerpt from the podcast: Joseph: Read More …

A Clinic on Innovation Practices

The 300th Business901 Podcast  The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation founding and current administrative director,  Barbara Spurrier MHA, is my guest this week on the Business901 podcast.  She has advised senior leaders in the health care industry for over two decades, serving as a champion for innovation in large, complex environments. She just recently co-authored Read More …

Innovation at the Mayo Clinic

Next week is my 300th Business901 podcast. It was a special treat for me to interview Barbara Spurrier, MHA, the founding and current administrative director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. She has advised senior leaders in the health care industry for over two decades, serving as a champion for innovation in large, complex Read More …

Forming a Quality Group

This is the last in series of interviews that I had with Bob Petruska of Sustain Lean Consulting. We have covered subjects from Trystoming to Value Stream Mapping. A complete list: Production Improvement: Crank it up and Go Faster Training 201: Training other People? TryStorming instead of BrainStorming? The Original Pizza Game at AME Jacksonville Read More …

A Linear Process for Right-Brain Thinkers

Timothy W. Fowler is a visual-spatial thinker who designed President Obama’s Air Force One secure inspection and re-fueling process and is also the founding Director of Super Bowl Champion Coach Joe Gibbs Youth For Tomorrow. In a past podcast, he introduced me to RIGHT technique. Read, Inquire, Glimpse, Highlight and Trend Related Podcast and Transcription: Read More …