It's time to jolt everyone out of their lean rut.  I have spent most of the week being pulled into the insignificant details of lean - whether the…

Sometimes people struggle with my application of the English language, and, in fact, some people find great entertainment value in running my phraseol…

You gotta hand it to the boys at Wharton.  They sure are way out there on the cutting edge of management thinking.  It seems fitting that in this 60th…

America has been taken over; but not by the Japanese, illegal Mexican immigrants or the Chinese, and certainly not by Al Queda.  No, the invading army…

I think I am on the verge of learning the hard way a lesson that I have learned many times over, but keep forgetting.  My gut reaction when chaos brok…

One of the great social myths is the inherent gift kids have for understanding technology.  Young people are said to have a natural talent for working…

Lean manufacturing is an economic business model - not a religion, not a moral crusade, and not a social cause.  Treating people decently, with respec…

Every year or so one of our neighbors takes us out for Sunday brunch.  She is considerably older than us, a world-traveller, very refined and formal,…