A Prescient Joke
25 November 2008
A couple years ago an email joke was making the rounds. It was amusing, but forgettable like most such things. A friend of mine recently remembered…
25 November 2008
A couple years ago an email joke was making the rounds. It was amusing, but forgettable like most such things. A friend of mine recently remembered…
24 November 2008
You got to love when a complex industry is forced to become even more complex. Government regulators are expected soon to overhaul the aging coding…
23 November 2008
How appropriate as we near the Thanksiving holiday that our favorite turkey, Jack Welch, gives us some pointers on leadership. In his regular Business…
20 November 2008
Regular readers know that American Apparel has long been one of my favorite companies. I love companies that think outside of the box, ignore popular…
19 November 2008
If you had a few billion riding on a project, what would you say if the following happened? Would you still be employed? May 2007: One of the smalles…
18 November 2008
Over the past few years we've been chronicling a very expensive journey by Danish toymaker Lego. A hat tip to regular reader Peter for helping us…
17 November 2008
"The largest cost in business is not labor, material, or overhead... it's unnecessary complexity." Who said that? I did. I use it almos…
16 November 2008
I promise one of these days I'll get off the topic of this ridiculous bailout of the Detroit Three automakers, but there are so many lessons of le…