Pull Economics
1 November 2006
Yesterday the Management Issues blog posted an article by Neil Cassie titled The New Language of Leadership. Typically I would stop at the title, as…
Guru Parthasarathy, Meet Guru Bill
31 October 2006
Straight from the Times of London is another story of American business schools teaching kids about everything except real business. Apparently the…
Does the Rock Star Have Clothes?
29 October 2006
Another day, another article about the wonders of Carlos Ghosn. He was even appointed an honorary knight commander of the British empire, joining the…
Insourcing and Outsourcing Capital
28 October 2006
The November issue of Business 2.0 has an article by Stanford's Jeffrey Pfeffer on Why It Pays to Be Private describing how more and more companie…
The Air Force Drives Lean Healthcare
27 October 2006
Many lean blogs, including ours, have written about how the military is embracing lean to improve efficiency and effectively stretch their budget doll…
Unlearning in India
25 October 2006
Last June, Bill wrote a piece on Learning is Easy, Unlearning is the Trick, where he talked about how important unlearning and relearning is to an org…
Domestics in Multinational Clothing
24 October 2006
Earlier this month we told you about the duel at NAM, where the NAM executive committee voted against the wishes of the majority of its membership to…
The Problem With Gross Domestic Product
23 October 2006
We've taken Jim Womack to task a few times in the past, but today's edition of his regular email missive is right on the money. Of course he…