Here Comes India, No Bailout Required
12 October 2008
Just as the Detroit Three automakers get set to slurp from the taxpayer bailout trough comes news of several Indian auto manufacturers getting ready t…
Stop Watching "Lost"
11 October 2008
A hat tip to Ron at Lean Six Sigma Academy for the following video of Gary Vaynerchuk delivering a keynote address at the Web 2.0 conference in New Yo…
Improving By Getting Out Of The Way
9 October 2008
We've all seen it before in our factories, and in business in general... sometimes we just have to set our employees free in order to realize the…
Fun With Statistics, Carbon Footprint Edition
8 October 2008
In this issue of Fun With Statistics we'll tackle that new consumer term du jour, the "carbon footprint." Most of us know by now that th…
A 5am Wakeup Call
7 October 2008
It's been a rough day or so, hence the short post. Yesterday I got the 5am call all of us dread: one of my manufacturing team members had lost her…
Compensating Risk
6 October 2008
I've long been at odds with many of my lean compadres in that I don't advocate controls or caps on executive pay. Instead I'd like to see…
The Lesson of a Stinky Basement
5 October 2008
There's a guy in Los Angeles (where else?) that's undertaking a bit of a strange project in order to change his impact on the environment. Lo…
Even Sweden Gets It
4 October 2008
Sweden is often referred to as an economic nirvana, where government-sponsored social support systems coexist successfully with the free market, albei…