I spend a lot of time reading about lean manufacturing, looking at what companies are doing - both successfully and not so successfully - and looking…

A year ago this month, my article "Shingo's Know Why" was published in Superfactory, marking the beginning of an enormously rewarding re…

Each quarter for the past 20+ years I've received the alumni magazine from my alma mater.  Each time I usually read the class notes section first.…

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…