Regular readers know that a pet peeve of mine is the lack of true root cause analysis and long-term perspective by presumably well-intended but short-…

The days of multi-hour delays at the airport aren't gone by a long shot, but things at JFK at least are considerably better than they were. The Wa…

In a couple of news items of note ... A guy by the name of Chuck Fellows is a candidate for the Michigan state senate. Among the issues that have Mic…

In a story in today's China Daily ... Rutgers' Chinese solar panels show clean-energy shift "At Rutgers University in New Jersey,…

Thanks to Jim Fernandez for sending me this article about Fiat's struggles to get their Italian workers to adopt American work practices - like th…

A couple of news items lately prompted me to take a look at my undesired investment, as a taxpayer, in General Motors. With a couple of very specific…

Over the last decade or so, perhaps as lean took root and oozed from my professional to my personal life, I've changed from wanting a larger house…

Company #1 Next week it will be one year since I first heard from a mega-giant, multi-national company everyone has heard of with a few questions abo…