Eat Mor Chikin
1 August 2012
This is not a post about gay marriage. It is a post about whether principles matter - they do. In my lean seminars when the subject turns to culture…
Dr Deming, I Feel Your Pain
21 July 2012
I don't for a minute pretend to compare myself with the great Dr. W Edwards Deming; far from it; rather, like most lean practicianers I walk in hi…
Take Another Path
14 July 2012
Today I had the chance to visit St Patrick's Cathedral in Auckland - don't worry, I'm not about to preach religion, just drawing an analog…
My Favorite Founder
4 July 2012
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, Revolutionary War soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of our first Constitutional lawyers and the…
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
2 July 2012
Justice Roberts cast the deciding vote making Obamacare the law of the land. His logic was largely that it is nothing more than a tax - a whopper of a…
Lot's of Stuff Going On
29 June 2012
So much going on ... so little time to write about it ... Good for People - Good for Business Great article in the New Zealand Herald about the valu…
The Management Myth
28 June 2012
In The Puritan Gift the Hopper boys do a great job of explaining the origins of business schools and the increasingly obvious folly of the concept of…
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Welders
19 June 2012
A few years ago in researching Rebirth of American Industry I read Alfred Sloan's books and articles in an attempt to understand how the managemen…