Many thanks to everyone who commented and contributed to the conversation this week about lean healthcare through the Q&A series with Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals. I hope soon others will publish similar books on lean government, lean applied to K-12 education and other examples of continuous improvement applied to important areas of our society.

Of the people who left comments and their e-mails, we selected at random 3 people who will each receive a copy of Mark's book. Congratulations Rob Thompson, anjilinjones and Erick Mortera. We will e-mail you to ask for a mailing address.

Once again, we would like to express our appreciation to Mark Graban for graciously providing these gifts and some insightful reading, both in his book and in the Q&A presented here this week.

I wish everyone a safe and healthy weekend.