By now everyone has heard of the Cash For Clunkers program. Buying America's assets and scrapping them in order to spend money borrowed from our g…

My daily routine begins with scouring an ever growing list of business sources from around the world, both for blog fodder and to keep on top of thing…

Last week I wrote that ABC is not Lean Accounting, and quite a bit of commentary and controversy resulted. I am still working on addressing some of th…

After giving it a lot of thought I am going to rank this as the second most asinine thing ever said by a business leader: "Marketing and innovati…

We often rail against the short-term perspective by traditional investors, especially when lean manufacturing transformations can take years. Financia…

More years ago than I care to admit, I was first trying to get my arms around what Toyota was doing - we knew it as JIT back in those murky days befor…

Several months ago when the government decided to bail out incompetence and distort free market accountability for poor business decisions by effectiv…

A recent article in the LA Times reminded me of one of my posts from a couple years ago where I proposed that people should look for new homes with le…