Debating Manufacturing... Not
21 October 2008
The latest Manufacturing News has an interesting piece on the U.S. presidential and vice-presidential debates, with regards to discussion of manufactu…
Public vs. Private Company Managers
20 October 2008
A recent article in Knowledge@Wharton compares the management of public and private companies. Executives who hone their skills at the helm of privat…
WaPo Sees the Balloon
19 October 2008
Regular readers know that I like to compare most efforts to regulate or socially engineer the free market to a balloon... you push on it in one place…
Feeding Generation Y
16 October 2008
Most of us have a very hard time completing that annual ritual: the employee review. We know how important it is to our folks, to managing expectation…
Carl Icahn and the Value of People
15 October 2008
A hat tip to fellow blogger Pete Abilla at shmula for pointing me to a post by Carl Icahn on waste in organizations. Heck, Pete analyzed it very well,…
Proof of Process as Leading Indicators: Base For Lean Metrics
15 October 2008
By Cash Powell, Jr. This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 20…
Gotta Love Dov
14 October 2008
I tried to not hit a subject too often, but some of our favorites keep popping up in notable ways. In this case, our buddy Dov Charney of American App…
Toyota Knows Brains
13 October 2008
When times are tough, what do most manufacturers do? Why, they lay off or send people home of course! If you're part of the Detroit Three like GM,…