by BILL WADDELL Elwood P Dowd (the guy whose friend was a six foot Pukka in Harvey) said, "Well, an element of conflict in any discussion's…

By Kevin Meyer Regular reader Ed pointed me toward this tidbit from a recent Harvard Business Review article: Baggage Fees Contribute to Decline in…

by BILL WADDELL In the Senate hearings yesterday a statement was made by Goldman sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein that, to me, summarized the difference in…

by BILL WADDELL Part of the blog routine is a daily scanning of dozens of news sites to find interesting fodder. Usually it is pretty straightforward…

By Kevin Meyer Over the last several months we've been writing about how the outsourcing lemmings have woken to the reality of their nonsense and…

By Kevin Meyer I'm not a big fan of Fast Company magazine - I once was, but then I grew up and realized there's a lot of fluff masquerading a…

Just a quick post that you might want to check out the latest episode of The Lean Nation, an actual lean-oriented radio show on WPRV in Providence, Rh…

By Kevin Meyer I guess we should have suspected it: GM didn't receive just a few billion in bailout funds from the government.  It also received…