Basic Excellence

The New York Times created a deserved furor last week with their article describing how the U.S. supposedly can't compete with China on manufactur…

The last couple weeks have brought the story of yet another icon of business, Kodak, collapsing and filing for bankruptcy. Yes, failure a key componen…

It's that time of the year again when many mortals look back on the year and basically say "crap I should have been able to do more." Th…

Don't worry folks, although the article I reference here is on regulation, my point is aimed at corporate policies and procedures as in this case…

Bill's post on Steve Jobs earlier today drew quite a bit of response - from both sides. Lots of supporting comments on the post itself, lots of em…

It took a few minutes to dissect this positive tidbit of news yesterday: Simmons opening a new furniture upholstery facility in the U.S. - and not jus…

The climate change world is in a bit of a tizzy this week over the resignation of Dr. Ivar Giaever, a nobel laureate physicist currently teaching at m…

One piece flow is a core concept of lean and thanks to its counterintuitive nature also one of the more difficult ones to embrace. We naturally want t…