Under Pressure Down Under
30 November 2009
As you are reading this I am in the Land Down Under for the first time - I have been to China and Europe more times than I care to remember, and have…
In The End Value Is All That Matters
29 November 2009
The big money people around the world are in a full blown panic over the financial implosion in Dubai. The state owned bank there says it is about $35…
The Ethnicity of Cattle and Other Matters
23 November 2009
Lying to and generally abusing customers has been around as long as business has been in business, but we seem to have reached a point at which we are…
When The Neck Bone Isn't Connected To The Head Bone
12 November 2009
James Weldon Johnson was quite the Renaissance man, if ever there was one. A poet and a lawyer, a politician and a songwriter, and a first rate educat…
How Many Pinheads Can Dance on the Heads of the Angels?
12 November 2009
The answer is at least three. That point is made pretty clearly in an article covering a talk made by Emerson chairman David Farr, and rebuttal commen…
Throwing In The Towel
10 November 2009
Just to prove I have not always been anti-intellectual I want to start by acknowledging a debt of gratitude to a guy named Bob Hayes, a Harvard profes…
A Tale of Two Leans
5 November 2009
There was about as good an article on lean in USA Today the other day as you will ever find in the popular media, describing a lot of good things happ…
Once Upon A Time In Manufacturing
3 November 2009
There are a lot of perks that come with being famous and powerful, one of them is that you can write a fairy tale with yourself as the hero and someon…