It's time to clear the air about family owned manufacturers.  The fact is that most of them are very well managed and much leaner than anything Wa…

One of my favorite weblogs lately is Mark Hurst's This Is Broken.  Almost every day he posts photos of "broken" signs, processes, design…

I fired another shot at the effort to repeal the Estate Tax again in the middle of the blog "Missing A Few Rungs On The Corporate Ladder" an…

In order to come up with blog fodder, I have a number of news sources and web sites I cruise every morning to see what's up in the manufacturing w…

I just realized that the Evolving Excellence blog is a year old this month, which made me pause for a few moments of reflection. Creating and buildin…

I know that some people think that on rare occasions I might be a little cynical and sarcastic, but believe me, I am asking this question in earnest.…

The largest privately owned manufacturing company in the U.S. came together yesterday when Koch announced that it was buying Georgia-Pacific.  The fol…

Peter Drucker died yesterday at the age of 95 and American business lost one of its greatest thinkers and strongest supporters.  I am sure glowing obi…