This week we'll take a look inside the Lost Surfboards factory.  Crank it up... some good tunes!  And while you're listening, think about inve…

Examples of Excellence is a weekly feature showcasing examples of operational excellence.  If you have an example you'd like to share, please emai…

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…