by BILL WADDELL This is a tale of two companies with very divergent views of their role and responsibility in the world:  Rio Tinto and Google. Let&…

by BILL WADDELL The following is an actual chart from a recent One Day Assessment, showing the distribution of one particular manufacturer's cost…

By Kevin Meyer Over the last several weeks I've been contemplating how things have changed in my still relatively short lifetime... how the word…

By Kevin Meyer It has started even sooner than I expected.  In this new era of supposed transparency and deliberation - at least that's what was…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past few years we've been chronicling the nonsense at Whirlpool, where they have laid off in one facility, opened a new o…

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…

By Kevin Meyer Good article in the latest High Performance Manufacturing Consortium newsletter that maps some of President Eisenhower's quotes wi…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past several months I've held an informal and optional "Leadership Video Breakfast" where every other Friday mo…