The furor surrounding executive pay usually centers on either the (gross) disconnect between performance and pay or the somewhat vaguer feeling that i…

Last month's Knowledge@Wharton had an article titled When Local Risks Become Global Risks, which discusses how globalization has augmented the imp…

Over the past couple weeks our friend Karen Wilhelm at the Lean Reflections blog has been telling us the story of "lean six sigma government"…

Regular readers know that we don't exactly have a high opinion of most books on the latest leadership fads. Bill once commented that it requires a…

History can be a great calibrator. Sometimes we can't see the complexity around us simply because it is all too familiar, too comfortable, and jus…

In 2005 Boeing decided to sell the Wichita/Tulsa Division of its Commercial Airplanes group to Toronto-based Onex for about $900 million in cash, nami…

Many of you may have caught Alan Blinder's front page article in the Wall Street Journal last week titled Pain From Free Trade Spurs Second Th…

UCLA is no longer going to be in the NCAA basketball championship dance, most likely due to the jinx that our fellow lean blogger Mike placed on them.…