When times are tough, what do most manufacturers do?  Why, they lay off or send people home of course!  If you're part of the Detroit Three like G…

Just as the Detroit Three automakers get set to slurp from the taxpayer bailout trough comes news of several Indian auto manufacturers getting ready t…

A hat tip to Ron at Lean Six Sigma Academy for the following video of Gary Vaynerchuk delivering a keynote address at the Web 2.0 conference in New Yo…

Those of you that watch Saturday Night Live have seen them at their best over the past few weeks, from Palin to Biden, Fannie and Freddie, and beyond.…

We've all seen it before in our factories, and in business in general... sometimes we just have to set our employees free in order to realize the…

In this issue of Fun With Statistics we'll tackle that new consumer term du jour, the "carbon footprint."  Most of us know by now that t…

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 he…

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…