If you ever have a chance to sit in on an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you'll see that the basic format is for the recovering drunks to tell thei…

I enjoy conducting training on root cause analysis because it's one of those areas where the production employees often "get it" before…

Welcome to the fourth Carnival of Lean Leadership.  There's a lot of material to cover this time, so we'll get right to it... The highlight o…

Regular readers know that I believe there are two must-attend conferences each year, and especially in 2006: the annual Association for Manufacturing…

As the week of Project Kaizen blogging rolls on with great insight coming from all sorts of unexpected corners, we reach a topic in which one of the &…

In 1953, Charles Wilson, President of General Motors and nominee for Secretary of Defense, uttered his famous quote, "...for years I thought that…

A lot of people don't like sports analogies, but Taichi Ohno often used one in particular, and, if its good enough for Ohno, it is certainly good…

When Clinton ran for President the first time, he had a sign posted at his headquarters that said, "Its the Economy, Stupid!".  The purpose…