While I would like to think that all of my blog posts are important to someone, the fact is that most of you cannot find any direct link between your…

As Saint Patrick's Day fast approaches, and Americans everywhere are gearing up to don silly hats and drink green beer by the bucketful in order t…

The scolding I gave the antagonists last week in their people argument set me to doing a little research in the people area, and every time I look int…

The last week in Las Vegas at the Lean Six Sigma conference was confusing.  I was there as the keynote speaker and I gave a few hundred quality expert…

Pretty much every guy feels the need to own a disgustingly over-powered set of wheels at least once during his lifetime.  Perhaps before the kids and…

Five years ago life was pretty good.  I had helped turn around a couple of medical device operations and had executed a rather successful turnaround o…

Most of us have heard the anecdote that "a majority of Baldrige Award winners have gone bankrupt."  I don't know if that's true, but…

The February 20th issue of Rubber & Plastics News had a front-page article on the lean transformation at Lauren Manufacturing, a custom rubber ext…