Several lean blogs have coincidentally discussed the importance of the daily stand up accountability meeting over the last few days, so I wanted to ad…

Yours truly was quoted in the latest issue of M&A journal The Deal Magazine in a cover story titled Revisiting Manufacturing. I was happy to see t…

It's almost becoming routine, if not boring. Nearly every day there is news of companies realizing the follies of outsourcing and deciding to &quo…

Today's Wall Street Journal has a review of the National Geographic Channel's documentary "Giuliani's 9/11" which takes tells us…

Evolving Excellence is hosting this 108th edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. Previous carnivals can be found here. Of we go with a sampli…

Kevin sent me an article some of the kids over at McKinsey wrote asking me for my expert opinion on just what drug they had been smoking. Knowing that…

At the University of Memphis you can get a master of science degree in engineering with a certificate in Applied Lean Leadership. It's mostly lean…

I just returned from a very successful business trip to Shanghai. Contrary to what many companies are doing, mine is selling TO China, not outsourcing…