Nobody's Fool X 2
30 June 2006
"To see the enemy up close, Ford Motor Co.'s president of the Americas [Mark Fields] took a slight detour on a recent trip to San Antonio and…
Just Start Learning
30 June 2006
Somewhere along the way I learned the basic principle that you can always determine someone's priorities in life by looking at how they spend thei…
Management Bombs Out In Deming
28 June 2006
Some idiot phoned in a bomb threat to Solitaire Homes, a manufactured housing company in Deming, New Mexico the other day. The plant had to be evacua…
Who Really Matters
27 June 2006
CNN recently published a list they called the 50 People Who Matter Now. The 'professional' business community's love of fads, numbers gam…
Bird Brained Strategy
24 June 2006
I love birds - especially the way they serve them at Subway and Boston Market. Live ones, however, are a different matter. If you stumbled onto this…
Why Portugal?
23 June 2006
Part of the culture that drove the Aberdeen BAE Systems plant (United Defense while I was there) to become extraordinarily lean was the continual posi…
It's A Team Sport
22 June 2006
One sour aspect of the World Cup that is quite a bit like some professional sports in the U.S. is the tendency of many good players to lose sight of t…
Lego's One Trick Pony
21 June 2006
Hes a one trick pony One trick is all that horse can do He does one trick only Its the principal source of his revenue I believe Paul Simon was reall…