Advice for Women

18 January 2012

Gender discrimination comes in a lot of forms, and with all of the hundreds of companies I have visited and the thousands I have researched I expect I…

Milliken, the Anti-Kodak

15 January 2012

The last couple weeks have brought the story of yet another icon of business, Kodak, collapsing and filing for bankruptcy. Yes, failure a key componen…

Command by Buzzword

5 January 2012

What does an Ivy League trained Commander in Chief with his Ivy Leaue trained staff mean when they describe their strategy with the words "lean&q…

A Momentous Anniversary

5 January 2012

For lots of reasons Henry Ford has been written off as a not-too-bright, mean-spirited guy whose only claim to greatness is the assembly line, and eve…

Platypus Leadership

2 January 2012

A wise person, lost in anonymity to the ages, described the platypus as a duck designed by a committee. It is exactly the sort of useless thing a comm…