by BILL WADDELL If transportation and logistics were not such a vital link in the manufacturing supply chain I would write this post about the sad st…

By Kevin Meyer What could have happened if our friend Santa Claus had succumbed to the call of the outsourcing lemmings? Another Christmas, another…

by BILL WADDELL I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to achieve excellence - for some impossible to achieve mediocrity - until the lea…

By Kevin Meyer Sometimes we forget that in the lean world value, and waste, is defined from the perspective of the customer.  An article in a recent…

Sometimes you really have to wonder... How quickly dreams can become nightmares. Just a few days after the engineering team behind the Chevrolet Vol…

By Kevin Meyer Here's a great Fox News segment on how Brunswick moved a bowling ball factory from Michigan to Mexico to chase cheap labor... and…

By Kevin Meyer For a couple years I've been giving you snippets of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's leadership style.  Sure he has a lot of detr…

by BILL WADDELL I have had more inquiries about scheduling one of my 1 Day Assessments in the first three work days of 2010 than got in the entire mo…