Lean manufacturing types consider "waiting" one of the seven deadly wastes.  But could it be a social value that also delivers positive fina…

We're currently running three polls at Evolving Excellence, so I thought I'd take a weekend moment to update readers on the current results.…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we take on the lure of the convenient scapegoat.  Let's start with an example that is all the rage these da…

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 h…

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…