We often deride the short-sighted companies that think of manufacturing workers as simply pairs of hands, and then use traditional accounting methods…

Almost three years ago, in one of my very first posts, I wrote about the dangers of horizontal surfaces. Horizontal surfaces have a tendency to colle…

I'll try to remain politically neutral with this story. One of the great incongruities of the current immigration debate in the U.S. is that we ar…

Although the tidal wave of lemmings outsourcing manufacturing to China has begun to slow in the face of a weak dollar and Chinese quality problems, th…

Peter Abilla over at the Shmula blog recently described how he uses visual management techniques to help his five kids become productive members of th…

We've read a lot over the past few years about supposedly excessive CEO pay. Tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars paid to executives that…

Regular readers know that I often liken regulation to a balloon... you constrain it in one place and it will pop out in some other, usually unexpected…

Thanks to reader Alex for sending me a detailed article on how one IT system administrator used the five whys to solve a network connectivity problem.…