leadership

I've run many manufacturing lines in the past, and seen hundreds more, including some exemplary examples of lean while visiting companies in Japan…

Time flies, but some memories - and the lessons from them - remain vivid. In late 2000 I decided to pivot from over ten years in medical device manuf…

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Kumamoto Prefecture a couple weeks ago. Within a few hours came the usual flood: drone footage of a partially collapsed…

I came across the paper behind this post through Azeem Azhar's Exponential View newsletter, in a short item noting that AI-native startups start s…

Bill George is someone I usually agree with. He's been a consistent voice for principled leadership and organizational culture. So when he posted…

I've been ranting about this for nearly twenty years. The accounting treatment of people is broken, and almost nobody in a position to fix it is m…

Jon Miller wrote something a few years ago at Gemba Academy that has stayed with me. The Toyota Way's second pillar is universally translated as &…

I was in college in the fall of 1982 when seven people in Chicago died from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. I remember the news coverage, the sudden p…