What do you get when you combine five bankers, McKinsey and a CEO who knows nothing but marketing? Propriety prevents me from getting too graphic as t…

A year ago I wrote about the sad story of the Simmons Mattress company, a well run outfit that got caught in the cross hairs of the investment bankers…

I wasn't planning on wading into this whole Representative Anthony Weiner fiasco but the rationalization by his apologists has just gone too far.…

I've been a little quiet on this blog lately - sorry about that. Basically I've been tied up with training for a marathon. Seriously. For abo…

Perhaps the most poorly titled article I have read - ever - is "The Scrappiest Car Manufacturer in America" that appeared in the June 6-12 i…

Another in a long line of contentious debates is raging in Washington, this one with a direct bearing on lean manufacturing. The Trade Adjustment Assi…

What are you thinking about? What do you think the people in your organization are thinking about? What are they actually thinking about? These are so…

One of my favorite topics, and passions, is the second pillar of lean: respect for people. I am completely convinced that the reason most lean initiat…