It's About Time
10 February 2006
I came across an article a few days ago that described a project launched by Intel to have some of their people attend a school for auto racing pit cr…
Jim's The Man
9 February 2006
Kathleen Fasanella, of Fashion Incubator fame, sent me her book, The Entrepreneur's Guide To Sewn Products Manufacturing. While I have not plowed…
C'mon Jim, Wrassle the Bear
8 February 2006
Yesterday Jim Womack issued another lean epistle, this one called "A Tale of Two Business Systems" - go ahead and read it. Every word of it…
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,…
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…