So much going on ... so little time to write about it ... Good for People - Good for Business Great article in the New Zealand Herald about the valu…

In The Puritan Gift the Hopper boys do a great job of explaining the origins of business schools and the increasingly obvious folly of the concept of…

A few years ago in researching Rebirth of American Industry I read Alfred Sloan's books and articles in an attempt to understand how the managemen…

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is one of those guys you like, even if you sometimes you may not agree with him completely. A few months ago I saw him sp…

I don't plan this stuff - it just happens, but this seems to be airline lean week. Any doubt about how badly the airlines need lean thinking has t…

by BILL WADDELL "Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to firs…

Twenty four years ago I took on my first kaizen event at a Copeland plant in North Carolina. We didn't know it was to be called a 'kaizen even…

I just learned that Dave Hogg, one of my oldest friends and mentors in the lean world, has received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work…