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…
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…