Lean Accounting Summit Time Getting close to LAS time. It is really the only serious gathering of folks pursuing the fundamental changes to your mana…

An article in today's Wall Street Journal made me think a bit about organizational scope creep. It takes twice as many firefighters to put out…

Just to put things in perspective - after all it is easy to get tangled up in all of the short term ups and downs and spin regarding the auto business…

This is not a post about gay marriage. It is a post about whether principles matter - they do. In my lean seminars when the subject turns to culture…

So the year is 2002. A team of designers and engineers shows their executives "a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The d…

I don't for a minute pretend to compare myself with the great Dr. W Edwards Deming; far from it; rather, like most lean practicianers I walk in hi…

Before I begin, let me be clear. I love Apple products, and I own a plethora of them. The design is incredible, they work like I want to work, and the…

Today I had the chance to visit St Patrick's Cathedral in Auckland - don't worry, I'm not about to preach religion, just drawing an analog…