By Kevin Meyer Many of us have visiting Japan to tour the factories of companies like Toyota in order to learn a little more about lean.  But how man…

by BILL WADDELL The President said it was high time the government got reorganized the other night in his State of the Union speech, drawing a few la…

By Kevin Meyer I often talk about how "respect for people" is the oft-forgotten second pillar of lean - and how lean fails when that concep…

By Kevin Meyer I was thumbing through some old magazines that had built up in the mayhem of the past month and came across an interesting article in…

by BILL WADDELL Tonight Mr Obama will expound on his economic theories that will restore the American economy and put everyone back to work.  Word ha…

by BILL WADDELL In all of the years of writing for Evolving Excellence you can count on one hand the books I have recommended as vital for an underst…

by BILL WADDELL Barack Obama appointed GE's Jeff Immelt to head up his advisory panel to create jobs.  No doubt Immelt knows how to do it.  GE…

by BILL WADDELL Lots of interesting and curious tales this week in the business world ... A great story about Kroger's came out that speaks to t…