China Begins to Recruit Globally
11 August 2008
Over the past year or two we've been reading more and more about the growing competition for talent inside China, which is creating rapid wage inf…
11 August 2008
Over the past year or two we've been reading more and more about the growing competition for talent inside China, which is creating rapid wage inf…
10 August 2008
Lean people have a favorite saying of "drain the swamp," typically meaning reducing inventory to expose problems. When raw, in-process, and…
9 August 2008
An article in last Sunday's NYTimes addressed the value of corporations staying small. In contrast to the early days of the internet when "ge…
8 August 2008
The latest issue of Manufacturing News has an interesting, albeit disturbing, article on how fewer startup companies are being created. Entrepreneuri…
7 August 2008
For those of you that thought I had lurched a little over the line to the right this week, here's a post in the other direction. Perhaps this wil…
6 August 2008
A regular reader recently pointed me to a post on Carrie's Nation which then pointed to a post on the Mutualist Blog which had a long review of Bi…
5 August 2008
An article in the WSJ the other day, on a subject completely unrelated to manufacturing, got me wondering. And you know what happens when I start to…
4 August 2008
A couple months ago when the politicos began talking, again, about a windfall profits tax on oil companies, we compared the profit margins of various…