Inventory Is Ignorance
7 June 2006
Costikyan Jarvis, of Jarvis Cutting Tools, recently wrote to me about a manufacturing executive program he recently attended at Harvard, in which the…
7 June 2006
Costikyan Jarvis, of Jarvis Cutting Tools, recently wrote to me about a manufacturing executive program he recently attended at Harvard, in which the…
6 June 2006
This Friday, an epic global struggle between workers and management will begin. It has nothing to do with labor unions or socialism - in fact Karl Mar…
5 June 2006
There is nothing special about a "learning organization", and, for my money, the folks out trying to forge a consulting and writing career o…
3 June 2006
I came across an article on CNN's site that lays out all of the usual advice on the appropriate attire for work, including the statement, "Bo…
1 June 2006
Searching around for lean success stories to write up is not an easy task because there are truthfully very few of them. It may come as a surprise to…
31 May 2006
In a recent post I teed off on a guy named Schwartz for citing the movie, Silkwood, as an example of corporate decadence. In the comments to that post…
30 May 2006
To the right is the cover of the latest Intel human resources manual - at least it is the manual Andy Grove is writing. When the folks at Intel were…
30 May 2006
Thirty pages into a painful book on organizational behavior by an academic named Howard Schwartz, I came to a chapter in which he expounds on the anti…