As the 2009 arrives, many of you will be focused on resolutions of what you'll do in the new year. Get a body like Obama, a love life like Gere, s…

A regular reader and loyal subservient leader of one of my best factories pointed me to a Doonesbury comic from earlier this week that captured the va…

With all the talk of corporate jets and massive bonuses for the CEO's of failing companies, here's a jolt of true leadership inspiration. Haru…

Many companies, including mine, canceled Christmas (ok, "Holiday"..) parties this year. In our case we did it as part of a preemptive strike…

Reason TV has put out the following YouTube video listing a bunch of products banned in the past year. Pretty impressive list, eh? Sure, some of thos…

There are a lot of people complaining about the supposed differences between the hourly pay of union auto workers with the Detroit 3 and the non-union…

Wednesday's Financial Times had a fascinating article describing the rather incongruent business climate in China. China this week celebrates the…

Conventional lean wisdom dictates that in order to obtain employee commitment for lean improvements, improvements that by their nature create efficien…