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 t…
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 he…
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…
New Blog: Lean Companies
3 October 2008
I keep an e-folder of companies that have made the news thanks to some type of lean manufacturing or lean enterprise connection. Most of these storie…
The "Other" Bailout, Part 4
2 October 2008
Over the past several weeks we've taken the "Detroit 3" auto companies to task for requesting taxpayer bailouts (sorry... "loans&qu…