Learn Continuously – Recommended Resources

The IEX Model

“Foundations For Transformation: Linking Purpose, People and Process” – IEX White Paper

Crosswalk Between Baldrige Framework, Shingo Model and IEX – Webinar recording

S-Curves and Evolutionary Change

After the Clockwork Universe, Sally Goerner

Global Mind Change, Willis Harman, 1998

Design In Nature, Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

“Evolving World View: Implications For All Industries, Including Healthcare” – IEX White Paper

Lean history and key thought leaders

W. Edwards Deming

“If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” NBC program, June 1980. “I think people here expect miracles. They think they can go to Japan and copy. But they don’t know what to copy.”

Out of the Crisis, W. Edwards Deming

The New Economics, W. Edwards Deming

Lean Enterprise Institute

The Birth of Lean, Koichi Shimokawa and Takahiro Fujimotoa, Editors.

Bodies of Knowledge Behind the Principles

Theory of Knowledge

The Knowledge-Creating Company, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi

“The Concept of ‘Ba’: Building a Foundation For Knowledge Creation,” Ikujuro Nonaka and Noboru Konno

Neuroscience(including “working-memory and hard-wire memory”)

Quiet Leadership, David Rock

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

“It Takes an Enterprise” presentation by Dr. Ed Chaplin at 2014 Deming Institute Conference.

“My Stroke of Insight” Jill Bolte Taylor, TED Talk.

The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Dodge

“Backwards Brain Bicycle” SmarterEveryDay Video

Mindfulness in The Lean Journey: Research & ApplicationsRafael Rojas, DBA (webinar recording)

Knowledge About Variation

Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos, Wheeler, Donald.

“Understanding and Managing Variation”, Mike Stoecklein, recorded webinar.

“Understanding and Misunderstanding Variation in Healthcare”, Mike Stoecklein, recorded webinar.

“Understanding and Misunderstanding Variation in Healthcare”, Mike Stoecklein, Deming Research Seminar Paper.

Systems Thinking (Including Focus on Purpose)

“How Thinking Works” Derek Cabrera, TED Talk

“The Big Theory of Everything” Derek Cabrera, TED Talk

Systems Thinking For Curious Managers, Russell L. Ackoff with Herbert J. Addison and Andrew Carey

No Contest, Alfie Kohn

Start With Why,Simon Sinek

“A Unifying Theory of Systems Thinking with Psychosocial Implications”, Derek Cabrera, Laura Cabrera and Erin Powers, Wiley Online Library.

Systems Thinking Made Simple, Derek and Laura Cabrera

Systems Thinking, Youtube video about key concepts from Derek and Laura’s book.

6 Year Old Boy Seeks Smiles, Youtube video

Getting the Right Things Done, Pascal Dennis

Managing To Learn, John Shook

A3 Problem Solving for Healthcare, Cindy Jimmerson

“My Year of Saying ‘Yes’ to Everything,” Shonda Rhimes, TED Talk.

A3 Problem Solving: Applying Lean Thinking, Jamie Flinchbaugh

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, Stanley McChrystal

The Elegant Solution, Mathew May (about innovation and Toyota)

“About the Toyota Kata Research” Youtube video featuring Mike Rother

Brain of the Firm, Stafford Beer

Diagnosing the System for Organizations, Stafford Beer

Psychology

Punished By Rewards, Alfie Kohn

BJ Fogg’s Behavior Model

Leadership Vertigo, Max Brown and TanveerNaseer

Driving Fear Out of the Workplace, Kathleen Ryan and Dan Oestreich

“10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation,” Celeste Headlee, TED Talk.

The neuroscience of social intelligence, Bill von Hippel at TEDxUQ 2014

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman

Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn From Aviation Teamwork and Safety, Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall, and Bonnie Blair O’Connor

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Liz Wiseman