Hopelessly Lost, But Making Great Time
12 December 2010
The folks at NIKE have the lean spin down pat. I am sure some consultant somewhere has done well thoroughly indoctrinating them in the whole lean spie…
Defects on an Epic Scale
7 December 2010
If you were to add up all the defects in all the automotive recalls in history, you would not reach the order of magnitude of an outfit that has a bil…
Profit Is Inevitable
30 November 2010
Most of my study of lean has been an effort to try to understand the driving principles - to get into the minds - of the people who created the core b…
Everyone A Leader
26 November 2010
"I've learned that leadership is taking other people where they can't take themselves. I've learned that it is not about you, it'…
Business Is a Team Sport
24 November 2010
I don't have any particular reason to pick on FormFactor, they just happened to hit the news with a typically insane quarterly earnings report at…
Lean on the Hoof
18 November 2010
Those of us who are in the business of teaching lean are engaged in the endless pursuit of the perfect example, the best analogy, the ideal teaching t…
Nowadays Everybody's Crazy - Part 2
18 November 2010
I thought that there were two kinds of companies - the enlightened ones that viewed a dissatisfied customer as a major problem - a pull the andon cord…
Nowadays Everybody's Crazy - Part 1
18 November 2010
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." No less an authority on craziness than Charles Mans…