Free ebooks – Mark Graban
Free Field Guides for Leaders
Short, practical guides on metrics, variation, and improvement. About 18 pages each. Enter your email and the download link appears right away.
The Red Beads in Your KPI Review
Leadership lessons from Deming’s Red Bead Experiment: why leaders ask people to explain noise, what that teaches people about speaking up, and how to tell signal from noise in your own metrics.
What Your Scorecard Isn’t Telling You
Why red-and-green scorecards and bowling charts mislead leaders, and what to use instead. Four sites, one scorecard, and one question most leaders get wrong.
Just PDSA It
Why kaizen, A3 problem solving, and strategy deployment are one learning loop at three sizes, and what it takes to make being wrong cheap enough that people run honest tests.
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Want the full argument behind the guides? Start with Measures of Success for metrics and variation, Healthcare Kaizen and Lean Hospitals for improvement methods, and The Silence Tax (February 2027) for the leadership behaviors that make honest improvement possible.
About Mark Graban
Mark Graban is a consultant, author, professional speaker, and podcaster who helps organizations improve through Lean management, better use of metrics, and psychological safety. He is a three-time recipient of the Shingo Publication Award. Work with Mark, in person or virtually.