Tour Notes 2 - People
6 October 2010
Western labor costs are better than ten times higher than corresponding labor rates in China. Overcoming that gap with vastly superior productivity is…
Tour Notes 1 - Culture
3 October 2010
Just finished the last stop on a seminar/workshop tour that has taken me over 30,000 miles over the last three weeks talking to folks on two continent…
Republican Jabberwocky
27 September 2010
"And then strange motions will abound.Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down" What curiou…
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
24 September 2010
My absence from the blog over the past few weeks is the product of a ridiculous travel schedule, and not only have I missed out on blogging, but quite…
First Vegas Then Down Under
20 September 2010
The Lean Accounting Glass isn't half empty - it's more like 99%+ empty. The hundreds of mostly financial folks descending on Las Vegas this we…
One Option Is Competence
17 September 2010
The Washington Post wrote a storyabout Lighting Science Group decrying the loss of manufacturing jobs that result from American innovators. The gist o…
A Simple Diagnosis
31 August 2010
Kevin sent me an article some of the kids over at McKinsey wrote asking me for my expert opinion on just what drug they had been smoking. Knowing that…
Ivy Covered Waste
29 August 2010
At the University of Memphis you can get a master of science degree in engineering with a certificate in Applied Lean Leadership. It's mostly lean…