Welfare Waste
11 November 2006
Our good friend Karen Wilhelm at the Lean Reflections blog recently posted a first-hand account of an encounter with welfare waste. She hit one of my…
Local Outsourcing Lemmings
5 November 2006
It's rare that I feel I need to bang my head against the wall first thing in the morning, but it happened today. I grabbed my coffee and opened th…
Taking a Long Term Perspective
4 November 2006
Three days ago we told you about "pull economics," where "a profound shift is taking place from predictive to non-predictive demand - f…
The Psychology of Lean Transformation
4 November 2006
My wife is taking a couple classes in preparation for attempting a PhD in psychology... probably so she can finally figure out why her husband loves f…
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 a…
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 l…
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…