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…

The Antithesis of Lean

29 December 2011

In the interest of protecting client confidentiality I won't name the town. Recently, however, I was out west in a beautiful spot in the Rocky Mou…

Rounding Up Again

16 December 2011

Software Advice A guy named Derek Singleton over at Software Advice interviewed me the other day for a piece he wrote about the state of manufacturin…

Welcome to the Funhouse

14 December 2011

Right from the get-go I want to make it clear that it is not my purpose to bash Ford. I am citing their numbers due solely to laziness. As the only Am…