Managing Through A Rear View Mirror
20 August 2006
Sometimes it can be pretty hard to tell whether folks are really dumb, or they are actually smart and are just being dishonest. The Mine Safety Applia…
Whirlpool, Sealy, and the Nike Factor
7 August 2006
Two stories caught my eye last week which helped demonstrate the dichotomy in lean thinking today. The first was Whirlpool's announcement that the…
A Touch Of Class
3 August 2006
Believe it or not, I don't enjoy blogging about the sleazy manufacturers who give all of us a bad name, or the charlatans who make a travesty of l…
And Another One Bites The Dust
1 August 2006
Kodak has made it official. Another once great American post World War II manufacturer is officially and completely out of the manufacturing business.…
You Do The Math
20 July 2006
A couple of guys named William - Trudell and Carreira - recently wrote a new lean book called "Lean Six Sigma That Works" and, while I haven…
Manufacturing and Insourcing at Google
5 July 2006
If you had to list the top manufacturers of computer servers, you would think it would be fairly easy... 1. Dell 2. HP 3. IBM 4. ... Google Goog…
Lean Goebbels Style
3 July 2006
The guiding principles behind Josepf Goebbels masterful propoganda campaign were written by his mentor: Common people " more readily fall victim…
Nobody's Fool X 2
30 June 2006
"To see the enemy up close, Ford Motor Co.'s president of the Americas [Mark Fields] took a slight detour on a recent trip to San Antonio and…