Bootstrapping business Survival

If you want to survive, what do you need to do? Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales officially distilled these observations down 12  points the seemed to stand out concerning how survivors think and behave in the clutch of mortal danger. Some of the same steps for staying out of Read More …

Businesses that Die, Die of confusion

So to survive, you must prevent confusion? Bill Dettmer of Goal Systems International, Theory of Constraints Expert and upcoming podcast guest recommended a book to me about Systems Thinking. It was Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales. At the time it sounded like an odd recommendation but Bill was “spot Read More …

The Perfect Storm has come together of Excess Capacity and Product Variety

Carol Ptak, a recent guest on my podcast said… A lot of people have focused on the fact that the Economic times right now are really bad. What a lot of people are missing is the fact that the world around us has fundamentally changed. A we see now across the world is that we Read More …

Using Theory of Constraints to handle Uncertainty in Decision Making

This is a transcription of a podcast I had with noted Theory of Constraints author and expert Eli Schragenheim . Eli as been part of the Theory of Constraints movement practically from the beginning. He started working with Dr. Goldratt as a programmer to program a game for adults that would teach them how to Read More …

Overcoming Resistance and Backsliding

In this blog post Story of Going Lean in Healthcare: On the Mend and in a recent podcast, Transforming Healthcare thru Lean. I was introduced to the 5 Stages of Change outlined by one of the co-authors, John Toussaint, MD. Recently, when I was reading the book Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment Read More …

Transforming Healthcare thru Lean

John Toussaint, M.D., CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value was my Podcast guest this week. From 2000 to 2008, Dr. Toussaint served as president and chief executive officer of ThedaCare, Inc., a community-owned, four-hospital health system including twenty-one physician clinics, as well as home health capabilities, senior care facilities, hospice care, and behavioral Read More …