It Takes a Minority
5 August 2011
Those of us in the lean world often struggle with enabling a nascent lean transformation to take root in an organization. Now we may have one more con…
5 August 2011
Those of us in the lean world often struggle with enabling a nascent lean transformation to take root in an organization. Now we may have one more con…
4 August 2011
Lots of great lean stories are cropping up - too bad few of them are in manufacturing management. And the stories aren't about superficial lean -…
4 August 2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an intriguing article a week or so ago by Peter Coy on the impending debt crisis - now temporarily shoved under the carpet…
1 August 2011
Another day, another company forgetting that there's a value-adding brain attached to the pair of hands that supposedly costs so much. The differe…
31 July 2011
Guns and algorithms have a lot in common. Both are tools that, in the hands of the right person, can be powerful forces for good. Of course, in the wr…
31 July 2011
Private aircraft have taken a beating recently, partly fair partly not. They can be written off as a "cost of doing business" just like innu…
27 July 2011
"What's the use you learning to do right when its troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the…
26 July 2011
I have met many Chevy lovers in my day, a good number of dedicated Cadillac drivers, guys who swear by Dodge Ram trucks and even a Buick fan or two. B…