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…

In response to a post a few days ago called "How About Multi-Skilled Managers?" two emotional responses were logged in almost immediately -…