Who Educates The Investors?
14 July 2010
So a guy named Mark Selway is brought into the Boral Company - a big global building products company based out of Australia - to turn things around.…
When Work No Longer Has Value
12 July 2010
Joe Weisenthal has been a financial guru since he got out of college - in other words has never actually done an honest day's work in his life - a…
Lightning Versus Lightning Bugs
9 July 2010
The formula for success is to identify value as the customer defines it, and focus your efforts on enhancing that value, while eliminating efforts and…
All The Wrong Moves
9 July 2010
A quick quiz to test your knowledge of manufacturing excellence - When faced with a serious quality problem a company should: A. Drastically increase…
Special Excellence
7 July 2010
Most students of lean know that Toyota gives much of the credit for their manufacturing approach to Henry Ford, and for very good reason. Ford's T…
Management Trumps Culture Every Time
6 July 2010
There is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the BP debacle in the Gulf of Mexico - that management rules - not culture or leadership. BP boss Ton…
The Elite Idiots
29 June 2010
In looking over the landscape for blog fodder I came across an article written by a guy named Paul Krugman in the New York Times that had nothing to d…
Misery Loves Company
25 June 2010
Our intrepid leader is at the G-20 Summit of the world's economic leaders this weekend, and it seems as though he is having a tough time getting a…