Thanks to an already hectic travel schedule, including going to Japan this Friday, this was the first year in many that I wasn't able to make the…

It seems like every blog, politically-oriented or not, is endorsing a presidential candidate. Why not? Newspapers, which also purport to be balanced,…

The latest Manufacturing News has an interesting piece on the U.S. presidential and vice-presidential debates, with regards to discussion of manufactu…

A recent article in Knowledge@Wharton compares the management of public and private companies. Executives who hone their skills at the helm of privat…

Regular readers know that I like to compare most efforts to regulate or socially engineer the free market to a balloon... you push on it in one place…

Most of us have a very hard time completing that annual ritual: the employee review. We know how important it is to our folks, to managing expectation…

A hat tip to fellow blogger Pete Abilla at shmula for pointing me to a post by Carl Icahn on waste in organizations. Heck, Pete analyzed it very well,…

By Cash Powell, Jr. This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 20…