Before I went into consulting I was the VP in charge of the supply chain at a big consumer products company, and I used to have a pretty standard spee…

There is an interesting interview with a Harvard guy named Umair Haque in Business Week, in which he carries on about the "sweatshops" in wh…

In this edition of 5 Questions we meet Dr. Sami Bahri, sometimes called "The Lean Dentist," and author of the recently-published Follow the…

A few days ago a post I wrote included what was really a throw away line, "Buying America's assets and scrapping them in order to spend money…

I've been somewhat amused over the last few days as Democrats try to squelch the mailing of a rather interesting chart purporting to diagram the D…

Ah the evils of bonuses. At least that's what the public has been lead to believe in conjunction with the ongoing financial crisis. And to add fue…

The big problem with lean accounting is that, for the most part, we are incapable of dealing with reality - and I don't mean accounting's ina…

When Norm Bodek and I wrote Rebirth, we included a chapter called "The End of the Quarter Shuffle", describing the lengths public companies…