Books

It's that time of the year when we reflect on the past and plan for the future. An arbitrary time, which has always bothered me. We should really…

A few years ago I starting playing around with a book concept that described several personal and professional leadership methods and habits I had dev…

Today two business books are being released. One will already get a lot of coverage, but in my opinion the other is far more important and dare I say…

"Employees are our most important asset." How many company value/vision/mission statements include that? I would guess over 90%... of the c…

Over the past several months you've probably enjoyed Bill Waddell's hard-hitting posts on this blog as much as I have. His propensity to chall…

We previously introduced you to Fab, the book on personal fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld. The following is a longer review by your editor, which will…

Just in time for summer, the Lean Enterprise Institute has published The Gold Mine by Freddy and Michael Balle, an excellent novel on executing a lea…

This is a little off-topic from our usual discussion of manufacturing excellence, but I just read an excellent book on the bizarre side of economic an…