The Credential was always a Workaround
1 June 2026
Reading Azeem Azhar's recent piece on the unraveling of fictions sent me back to a fluid dynamics classroom in 1983 that I'd mostly tried to f…
Reflections on leadership, lean, and life.
1 June 2026
Reading Azeem Azhar's recent piece on the unraveling of fictions sent me back to a fluid dynamics classroom in 1983 that I'd mostly tried to f…
26 May 2026
Bill George is someone I usually agree with. He's been a consistent voice for principled leadership and organizational culture. So when he posted…
25 May 2026
I've been ranting about this for nearly twenty years. The accounting treatment of people is broken, and almost nobody in a position to fix it is m…
22 May 2026
My wife occasionally wanders into my office early in the morning to find me talking to Claude on one screen while a collection of very colorful, const…
19 May 2026
Jon Miller wrote something a few years ago at Gemba Academy that has stayed with me. The Toyota Way's second pillar is universally translated as &…
18 May 2026
Almost 30 years ago I launched Superfactory.com, born out of my own lean journey and a desire to share what I was learning - and to play with this new…
17 May 2026
Serves: 4–5 Total time: ~55 minutes Difficulty: Moderate Diet: Vegetarian Background Khao Soi is one of the defining dishes of Northern Thailand, p…
13 May 2026
I was in college in the fall of 1982 when seven people in Chicago died from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. I remember the news coverage, the sudden p…