Our friend Bob Emiliani runs an ongoing ad on fellow blogger Mark Graban's Lean Blog that pokes a bit of fun at various lean glitterati. I thought…

Now let's get this straight: GM took $45 billion in tax breaks. It's stock is at the lowest point since the IPO which makes the taxpayers'…

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…

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 -…

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…

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…

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…

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…