Our good friend Karen Wilhelm at the Lean Reflections blog recently posted a first-hand account of an encounter with welfare waste. She hit one of my…

The news is ablaze with tales of intrigue, suspense, and speculation as Election Day takes over America.  As far as business in general, and manufactu…

It's rare that I feel I need to bang my head against the wall first thing in the morning, but it happened today.  I grabbed my coffee and opened t…

Three days ago we told you about "pull economics," where "a profound shift is taking place from predictive to non-predictive demand - f…

My wife is taking a couple classes in preparation for attempting a PhD in psychology... probably so she can finally figure out why her husband loves f…

I just returned from a lean management ranting gig in Greenville, South Carolina - an incredibly beautiful part of the country, chock full of folks pu…

Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website .  The new content is featured in the free monthly e…

Yesterday the Management Issues blog posted an article by Neil Cassie titled The New Language of Leadership.  Typically I would stop at the title, as…