The Sunday Parade Magazine newspaper insert, of all rags, had a couple tidbits to ponder this morning. Sandwiched between silly celebrity gossip and w…

I am inundated with unsolicited manuscripts from business writers who hope that I will use my platform to push their particular book. from time to tim…

Take a step back in time, just a few months before the bailout and cash for clunkers distorted the market by stimulating the demand for foreign autos,…

A week ago I wrote a post concerning metrics that generated quite a stir - as anything regarding metrics always does. My web site took a huge number o…

A couple months ago I told you how GE’s Jeff Immelt was singing a new tune on the glories of outsourcing. A rather radical new tune, which raised the…

One of our favorite companies, American Apparel, is at it again. A hat tip to Peter for apparently browsing their online catalog to find this new prod…

A couple years ago I made a valiant attempt to draw some vague link between haircuts and lean. Basically the time it takes to go through that morning…

We’ve been following the story of Whirlpool’s Evansville refrigerator factory for several years. Back in August of 2006 we told you about one round of…