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…

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…

I keep an e-folder of companies that have made the news thanks to some type of lean manufacturing or lean enterprise connection.  Most of these storie…