It's Work Rules, Not Pay
22 December 2008
There are a lot of people complaining about the supposed differences between the hourly pay of union auto workers with the Detroit 3 and the non-union…
Focusing on the Small, Forgetting the Big
8 December 2008
The Detroit Three car companies, and all companies for that matter, are taking sometimes draconian steps to cut costs. Some examples: Over the past…
Should Ford Learn From... Ford?
7 December 2008
Believe it or not, South America has long been a test bed for new auto production ideas. Many automakers use South America to try out new manufacturi…
Newt on the Toyota Production System
5 December 2008
A hat tip to Jim Huntzinger for letting several of us know about this interview of Newt Gingrich on Fox's Hannity & Colmes. We mentioned Newt…
A Prescient Joke
25 November 2008
A couple years ago an email joke was making the rounds. It was amusing, but forgettable like most such things. A friend of mine recently remembered…
On the Road to Zimbabwe
16 November 2008
I promise one of these days I'll get off the topic of this ridiculous bailout of the Detroit Three automakers, but there are so many lessons of le…
Yes, Failure is an Option
13 November 2008
The post earlier this week on the proposed additional bailout of the Detroit Three generated the usual couple of emails suggesting I was a "right…
Trickling Down on Detroit
9 November 2008
Last month I wrote what I thought would be the last post on bailing out the Detroit Three automakers. I should have known better, especially after la…