A couple days ago Jim Press, President of Toyota Motor North America, gave a talk to the National Press Club in Washington.  He talked about the histo…

Organic cucumbers, vegetarians, global warming... and lean manufacturing.  An unlikely combination?  Not in the latest issue of Grist Magazine, which…

I was going through some old files earlier today and came across a letter to the editor from yours truly that was published in Business Week... on Oct…

Kevin recently wrote on the schism opening up at NAM and he quite accurately pointed out that neither side grasped the fundamental issues they must fa…

CNN/Fortune (not to be confused with CNN/Business2.0, CNN/Money, CNN/Time... apparently CNN doesn't do original content anymore) has an online art…

The July 7th issue of Manufacturing News has a lengthy article on a schism taking place within the National Association of Manufacturers.  We've w…

Those of you that subscribe to the monthly Superfactory e-Newsletter have probably been following an interesting debate in the Historical Persective s…

Last month we talked about the power of chaos and one piece flow in Italian traffic.  By not having (or obeying) traffic signals, Italian traffic move…