I've long been a fan of Colin Powell's leadership style, as I consider it to be both human-centric while holding those same people accountable…

If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, did it make a sound?  If time doesn't exist, can there be just-in-time manufacturing? Those are…

Last week's Fun With Statistics post on the Minneapolis bridge news, note I purposely did not call it a "catastrophe" or "disaster,…

Yesterday we told you about a new blog, Lean Software Engineering.  Those of us that have lead groups that included software engineers know that softw…

A hearty welcome to a couple relatively new blogs joining the lean blog community. Business Lean by Neil Kjeldsen is published by Ultriva, which make…

This morning on my drive to work I was listening to a podcast of a speech given in 1991 (Link to transcript; Link to audio). The speaker related the f…

Over the past couple weeks I've been contemplating the concept of "self-contained waste."  Wasteful processes that have no inputs or out…

We've long been fans of JA Apparel, the company that owns the Joseph Abboud clothing label.  In fact we've blogged about the company three tim…