There are an increasing number of lean manufacturing and lean enterprise events each year, however a few really stand out from the crowd: * Associat…

Some of you may have seen this in today's Parade magazine, but take a look at The Council for Excellence in Government.  We do tend to talk about…

Far too many managers get caught up in the rank and prestige, and therefore never make the leap from manager to leader.  One of the key responsibiliti…

Michael Bremer had an excellent post in the NWLean group on the importance of metrics, dovetailing into resource reasons why many lean initiatives fai…

Bob Emiliani's Better Thinking, Better Results continues to be one of my favorite reads on creating enterprise excellence.  Oftentimes I'll st…

Over the past few weeks Norman Bodek, author of Kaikaku, has been discussing his "10 commandments of Kaikaku" on the NWLean group.  He has a…

This is unbelievable. 100+ years of learnings from one of the world's most respected institution, available for free. The idea behind MIT OCW is…

Back in May of 1997, a friend and I spent a week on the island of Antigua with no real agenda beyond exploring the beaches. Antigua is famous for clai…