All Manufacturing Is Local
7 February 2006
I received a letter from the UAW last week that was both pleasing and perplexing. I had asked Carly Murdy, Director of the UAW Education Department, t…
Dubbya Sold Out The Factories
6 February 2006
About a month back I wrote a piece eloquently titled "Putting Perfume On A Pig", in which I blasted the collection of people so smart they h…
The Founders of Our Feast
5 February 2006
My absence from the blog the last few days is the result of having to perform tough duty attending the AME Champions Conference in Bonita Springs, Flo…
Irreverence? No, Contempt
30 January 2006
My last few posts seemed to spark a greater than usual number of emails decrying me for being unduly 'irreverent", so I looked it up: ir·rev…
Another Amazing But True Manufacturing Story
30 January 2006
Before Alfred Sloan came along (you know who he is - Bill Gates said that if you are only going to read one book about business, read Sloan's - th…
Either They Get It Or They Don't
28 January 2006
In the article I wrote about the Delphi fiasco a few months back, I said, " There is no bright line of demarcation – lean manufacturers on one si…
Our Lesson To Be Learned
25 January 2006
The automotive industry is big and visible; it has historically been the bellwether of manufacturing; it is the essence of manufacturing, in fact. Wi…
The Myth of Culture
24 January 2006
I have spent much of the last 24 hours looking at the various news reports, reading the other bloggers, and delving into the particulars of the announ…