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…

Since we started a regular weekly feature yesterday, why not start another today?  We'll see. The video below is a quick tour of the BMW factory…

Thanks to a suggestion from several readers, today we're starting a regular feature for Saturdays: Examples of Excellence.  Each week we'll sh…

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 expectatio…

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…

I tried to not hit a subject too often, but some of our favorites keep popping up in notable ways.  In this case, our buddy Dov Charney of American Ap…