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

05/13/19 • 6 min

I haven't read it, but Marie Kondo's book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing has been a pop-culture phenomenon the past few years.

I've seen some compare her process to the Lean practice of “5S.”

Kondo says you should only keep an item if it “sparks joy.”

I haven't read it, but Marie Kondo's book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing has been a pop-culture phenomenon the past few years.

I've seen some compare her process to the Lean practice of “5S.”

Kondo says you should only keep an item if it “sparks joy.”

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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 Health.

I'm guessing he created the headline, since the phrase “give a damn” doesn't appear in the article:

"Michael Dowling: CEOs — Give a damn about your people"

Who are the CEOs he is speaking to who do NOT give a damn? What inspired him to write this?

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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I find it really interesting when scientific facts and truth get superseded by new evidence. Science isn't supposed to be stubborn... it's OK to cast aside the old status quo when we learn something new (pay attention, “flat Earth” crowd).

There are a lot of these themes, also, in a book I've been reading, The Case Against Sugar, by Gary Taubes. Some of the established science about low-fat diets being good for us might not really be true.

How does this all apply in medicine and our practice of Lean?