Yes, Debt Matters
26 March 2010
Over the last several weeks I've been contemplating how things have changed in my still relatively short lifetime... how the word "freedom&qu…
Rush Rush Rush... Fix Fix Fix
25 March 2010
It has started even sooner than I expected. In this new era of supposed transparency and deliberation - at least that's what was promised - the ov…
Whirlpool, Yes Whirlpool, Looks for Lean
22 March 2010
Over the past few years we've been chronicling the nonsense at Whirlpool, where they have laid off in one facility, opened a new one, then closed…
Naysayers vs. Just Negative
21 March 2010
By Kevin Meyer Last week I discussed the value of listening to naysayers... and how that can make the difference between creating an Apple iPod and a…
Eisenhower Channels Lean
19 March 2010
By Kevin Meyer Good article in the latest High Performance Manufacturing Consortium newsletter that maps some of President Eisenhower's quotes wi…
Listen to the Naysayers
15 March 2010
Over the past several months I've held an informal and optional "Leadership Video Breakfast" where every other Friday morning my staff a…
Putting Lean Into Orbit
15 March 2010
By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
Teaching by Asking Why
14 March 2010
The business school at our local university, consistently ranked one of the top public universities in the west, is going through a minor brouhaha ove…