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Here\'s another\\xa0reader question, this one received from The Netherlands, a country I have loved visiting over the past eight years (see\\xa0my blog posts about the country and Lean healthcare efforts there).

Here is the question, in part:

Your work has been an inspiration here, so I started to research the origin and dissemination of lean in healthcare in the USA. Your first book, can be considered a standard work in this field and won a number of awards. But what I couldn\'t found in my search, was your motivation to write it. Can you please answer that for me:\\xa0what triggers made you decide to start practicing lean in healthcare?

In a nutshell, here\'s the answer...