Basic Excellence

Thanks to an already hectic travel schedule, including going to Japan this Friday, this was the first year in many that I wasn't able to make the…

There's a guy in Los Angeles (where else?) that's undertaking a bit of a strange project in order to change his impact on the environment. Lo…

We've had a few posts over the last year discussing how to minimize email, improve the processing of email, and the like. But how about reducing t…

Guest author today is Cash Powell, Jr. of the University of Dayton's Center for Competitive Change. --------- In a recent interview, the 16th Pre…

Recently my opinion of MIT's Sloan Management Review, and the supposed gurus behind it, has improved. This week the bubble burst and they're b…

Earlier this week Dan Markovitz penned a post comparing kaizen with kaikaku... steady continual improvement versus sudden, radical improvement. The po…

Guest author today is Cash Powell, Jr. of the University of Dayton's Center for Competitive Change. ----- When Orrie Fiume, then Executive Vice P…

I enjoy traveling, although the past week in Switzerland and France has been rather grueling.  One of the aspects I like most is seeing how cultures a…