It's been a rough day or so, hence the short post. Yesterday I got the 5am call all of us dread: one of my manufacturing team members had lost her…

I've long been at odds with many of my lean compadres in that I don't advocate controls or caps on executive pay. Instead I'd like to see…

There's a guy in Los Angeles (where else?) that's undertaking a bit of a strange project in order to change his impact on the environment. Lo…

Sweden is often referred to as an economic nirvana, where government-sponsored social support systems coexist successfully with the free market, albei…

Over the past several weeks we've taken the "Detroit 3" auto companies to task for requesting taxpayer bailouts (sorry... "loans&qu…

Ok, admit it. How reliant are you on your Blackberry, iPhone, Treo, or other PDA smartphone? Do you take advantage of every free moment to check for e…

Evolving Excellence has the honor to be the host for this edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. A sampling of interesting posts over the pas…

The $700 billion bailout (err.. "rescue plan") just failed to win approval in Congress, with substantial numbers of both Democrats and Repub…