Note: Links to all of four Japan factory tour posts and the various lessons from those tours can be found here. While traveling to Japan a few days a…

Note: Links to all of four Japan factory tour posts and the various lessons from those tours can be found here. Just a brief note this morning as I&#…

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…