This is a tale of two companies with very divergent views of their role and responsibility in the world: Rio Tinto and Google. Let's start by poi…

Over the last several weeks I've been contemplating how things have changed in my still relatively short lifetime... how the word "freedom&qu…

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…

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…

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…

Over the past several months I've held an informal and optional "Leadership Video Breakfast" where every other Friday morning my staff a…

By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…