The Third Way, a "moderate progressive think tank" that surprisingly I can agree with on many items, is promoting a "taxpayer receipt.&…

There are a couple of messages I give to the folks who attend my seminars I think are necessary for everyone in a position to lead change in their com…

We have long known of and admired John Ratzenberger's efforts to promote manufacturing. For a number of years he has stood as the sole voice of Ho…

The last Lean Accounting Summit contained a lot of great content but what really stood out for me was the focus on value. There is a growing realizati…

In the course of giving my Lean Accounting / Lean Business Model seminars over the course of the last several weeks, inevitably we would get to the su…

Western labor costs are better than ten times higher than corresponding labor rates in China. Overcoming that gap with vastly superior productivity is…

We've discussed Volkswagen before - both the possibility that their focus on long term excellence will vault them into the top tier of auto manufa…

If we spent half as much time actually leading as we do looking for leadership lessons under every conceivable rock, perhaps we'd actually get som…