Zappos and the Fallacy of Best Practices
31 January 2010
By Kevin Meyer Companies love to spend gobs of money going on treasure hunts to find new best practices. Tours of great companies, workshops by supp…
Fitness Accessories for the Stand Up Desk
30 January 2010
Last week's post on the health effects of standing, and how sitting long periods can more than offset the benefits of even regular vigorous exerci…
Swimming Through the Information Clutter
29 January 2010
By Kevin Meyer A recent article in The Economist by Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz describes how one aspect of leadership has changed in the information age.…
Toyota Pulls the Big Andon Cord, Finally
26 January 2010
By Kevin Meyer Toyota just announced that it was suspending sales of eight of its most popular models while it investigates the accelerator pedal sti…
Proving Again That Input is Unrelated to Output
24 January 2010
One of my pet peeves is the pervasively popular perception that increased spending somehow must improve the quality of the product. Too many people be…
Standing is Worth More than Exercise
23 January 2010
Regular readers know that I've been using a stand up desk for well over a year, and annoyingly take nearly every opportunity to promote the concep…
Fun With Statistics: Metrics, Distortions, and Outright Lies
23 January 2010
Several letters in today's Wall Street Journal pointed me back to a recent op-ed by Michael Boskin titled "Don't Like the Numbers? Change…
The Culmination is... Poof!
21 January 2010
Mergers and acquisitions are a common activity in business, even if they rarely work our as originally envisioned. At least that original vision is oc…