I’ve chosen to address a fairly morbid topic today: Death. Death is inevitable. As of yet, modern science has not created a cure for death. There are…

A few days ago we wrote about how Toyota is experiencing the power of people... both in terms of losing some top flight executives to competitors as w…

PBS aired a good interview (online summary here) a few days ago on midwest manufacturers that are holding their own against foreign competition. Not j…

A couple years ago it was San Antonio, over the next couple years it will be Blue Springs, Mississippi. With a new Toyota plant slated to open, the hi…

Mark over at the Lean Blog sent me an article that I've been noodling for several days, describing how Cessna (a unit of Textron) has decided to b…

From Joseph at The Stalwart blog comes a great video: Found a video that will primarily appeal to U2 fans, along with those of us fascinated by…

I'm probably asking for it, but the political junkie and the manufacturing geek in me had a meeting while I was sleeping last night... which will…

(Note: this is a copy of a post I just put up on my own blog. For more goodies on the lean approach to managing email and information, and how to crea…