Lean Blogs to Help You Improve Efficiency

A key part of continuous improvement (one of the pillars of Lean) is continuous education – keeping your brain actively engaged with Lean ideas. Reading Lean blogs can keep Lean principles and practices top of mind as you make decisions in work and in life. It can help you remember to use a testing mindset with both your marketing campaigns and your pantry organization!

Lean is a topic with many authors, leaders, and practitioners, from startups to enterprises in all different industries. We follow these five Lean blogs to learn ways to become more efficient, less stressed, and happier in work and life.

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5 LEAN BLOGS TO FOLLOW

STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED – ERIC RIES

As the author of Lean Startup and the founder of the Lean Startup methodology, Eric Ries brought Lean thinking into the mainstream media. Startup Lessons Learned is his entrepreneurship blog all about the lessons Eric has learned throughout his career, applying Lean thinking to the tech world.

LEANBLOG.ORG – MARK GRABAN

As one of the most influential thinkers in Lean, especially in the Lean healthcare space, Mark Graban is a wealth of knowledge. His blog covers topics about Lean that are universally applicable to businesses and practitioners in all industries. Through the success of this blog, Mark has written several books on Lean healthcare, including Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, and Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements.

THE KAREN MARTIN GROUP – KAREN MARTIN

Led by Lean transformation expert Karen Martin, the Karen Martin Group has been creating high-quality Lean content for several years. Karen writes on topics such as customer value, continuous improvement, Lean leadership, and personal effectiveness – ideal reading material for anyone in an enterprise undergoing a Lean transformation.