In an op-ed in The New York Times this morning, Thomas Friedman derides Toyota for not supporting tougher mileage standards for autos. Assisting Detr…

Evolving Excellence is hosting this edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. Elegance Offsets at Elegant Solutions. If carbon offsets are viab…

Last Sunday was an interesting day at our house. We live on a steep street near the top of one of the "seven sisters" small extinct volcanoe…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll take a quick look at the impact of subpopulations of data. We often look at the direction of large po…

Like many other lean-oriented bloggers I've held back from making much of a comment on the recent deal between GM and the UAW. I think Chrysler, w…

Bill and Kevin have blogged in the past about the efforts of new Lego CEO, and former McKinsey partner, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp to remake the company. (R…

I haven't picked on NAM too much recently, basically nothing since their drama of early this year when their small number of large manufacturer me…

About a year ago we warned companies to beware of chasing cheap labor around the world... "globetrotting" as we called it. Ahh... to be a w…