In the manufacturing world most understand that excellence - lean - centers on cycle time. Manufacturers aren't necessarily all doing a good job w…

This Memorial Day we remember those who gave their lives in defense of our country, a sacrifice that should give pause to all the childish bickering g…

Mitt Romney last Fall: "'Our productivity equals our income." Barack Obama in response on Wednesday: "... the notion was that some…

I've been collecting a variety of articles I found interesting with the intention to bloviate about them. Unfortunately time has flown by and I ha…

Valuing Facebook at $100 billion killed the company. While it could have continued to limp along as a privately held company, as a publicly traded com…

Here's the way I see lean: This is pretty much the model I use when I am writing about companies or concepts for Evolving excellence, doing my co…

It's college graduation season, so once again we get to listen to a bunch of commencement addresses by supposed dignitaries launching kids still r…

There have been a couple articles in noteworthy rags over the last couple days that have raised my ire a bit - even if I eventually agreed with one of…