Pella Prefers People
11 January 2009
Times are tough, and organizations are having to cut back. Some are taking the traditional approach of whacking heads without realizing the full value…
Pushing Back on the Fine Print
9 January 2009
I'm bouncing around the country this holiday season, and just came across the following in the fine print of my Avis rental car contract: Effec…
Management Improvement Carnival - The Best of 2008
7 January 2009
John Hunter at Curious Cat has asked several of us to help co-host part of a larger scale Management Carnival Best of 2008 series where several blogge…
Look Out Wal-Mart, Here Comes Tesco
5 January 2009
The featured article on Superfactory in January is a piece by one of the heavyweights of the lean movement, Richard Schonberger, titled The Skinny on…
Time for Government Kaizen
4 January 2009
Obama says he's going to scrutinize the federal budget line by line. Good luck with that. Although I applaud his desire to cut wasteful spending,…
What the Heck is Twitter?
4 January 2009
Most of us have heard about Twitter by now... that social networking phenom based around people posting short messages about themselves and what they&…
What Won't You Do in 2009?
30 December 2008
As the 2009 arrives, many of you will be focused on resolutions of what you'll do in the new year. Get a body like Obama, a love life like Gere, s…
Doonesbury on the Value of People
29 December 2008
A regular reader and loyal subservient leader of one of my best factories pointed me to a Doonesbury comic from earlier this week that captured the va…