by BILL WADDELL Most students of lean know that Toyota gives much of the credit for their manufacturing approach to Henry Ford, and for very good rea…

by BILL WADDELL There is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the BP debacle in the Gulf of Mexico - that management rules - not culture or leader…

Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website. The new content is featured in the monthly e-newslette…

By Kevin Meyer A healthy backlog can be a comforting feeling.  Boeing and Airbus rejoice in having backlogs over a decade long.  I used to work for a…

by BILL WADDELL In looking over the landscape for blog fodder I came across an article written by a guy named Paul Krugman in the New York Times that…

By Kevin Meyer Just in time for a slow Sunday comes a story via one of my favorite e-zines, Reason, telling us about the problems that progress somet…

By Kevin Meyer I've long known that face-to-face conversations can be very valuable, especially when you're trying to read emotion and inflec…

by BILL WADDELL Our intrepid leader is at the G-20 Summit of the world's economic leaders this weekend, and it seems as though he is having a tou…