Mike Says Put Up or Shut Up
13 May 2009
After one of my recent rants on the devastating impact Wall Street is having on our manufacturing base, a reader by the name of Mike, wrote: "Ju…
The Epitome of Waste
12 May 2009
I was thumbing through the Chrysler bankruptcy filing and came across a few numbers that are worth sharing. The great thing about Chrysler being in ba…
Stickin' It To The Grandkids
8 May 2009
The fact that we are borrowing money from future generations and spending it like drunken sailors on shore leave is well documented. Less clearly know…
The Irrelevance of the Economists
6 May 2009
Several years back one of my sons played on a little league baseball team that happened to be losing 15 or 20 to nothing, which happened quite often w…
The Lean Gospel
4 May 2009
For several years I have been concerned with the question of why the big publicly traded companies find it so difficult - often impossible - to embrac…
So Fair An Opportunity
1 May 2009
In 1864 some Union soldiers with mining experience dug a long tunnel and placed a huge cache of dynamite under the Confederate lines in front of Peter…
Murphy's Anti-Lean Law
27 April 2009
It can be very tempting to look upon the GM debacle with detachment - as some grand, distant auto/political thing that may be interesting, but has no…
Lean Is Bigger Than Any Of Us
23 April 2009
Several years ago I was part of a turnaround team at Cincinnati Microwave - the people that invented radar detectors. I worked with some great people,…