Some idiot phoned in a bomb threat to Solitaire Homes, a manufactured housing company in Deming, New Mexico the other day.  The plant had to be evacua…

CNN recently published a list they called the 50 People Who Matter Now.  The 'professional' business community's love of fads, numbers gam…

Whether he really knows it or not, Dov Charney of American Apparel apparently understands lean.  At a time when most clothing companies are flocking t…

For the last couple years we've been talking about being able to create excellence through the power of simplicity.  This can take the form of sim…

I love birds - especially the way they serve them at Subway and Boston Market.  Live ones, however, are a different matter. If you stumbled onto this…

Part of the culture that drove the Aberdeen BAE Systems plant (United Defense while I was there) to become extraordinarily lean was the continual posi…

We've talked about this before... what happens to supply chain risk when you become very, very lean?  In the June 17th issue of The Economist ther…

One sour aspect of the World Cup that is quite a bit like some professional sports in the U.S. is the tendency of many good players to lose sight of t…