Management Improvement Carnival #76
20 September 2009
Evolving Excellence is honored to host this edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. For past carnivals go here. * Standard Work and the Fol…
You Gotta Be Original
15 September 2009
by BILL WADDELL By the time this uploads to Evolving Excellence I will be in the air on my way to Seattle, to a factory I have never seen before, for…
Leading in the Gemba
20 August 2009
By Kevin Meyer Dr. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University's management school penned an article in the latest Business Week decrying a lack of mana…
History - and Vision - in One Sentence
27 June 2009
By Kevin Meyer A few months ago I wrote how Twitter and haiku can help us create focus and clarity of mission. Condensing our values, desires, and…
Bob Nardelli "feels good." Welcome to Bizarro world.
4 May 2009
Sigh. Bob Nardelli "feels good." Those of you with elephantine memories will remember that I'm no fan of Bob Nardelli. The erstwhile CE…
Twitter, Haiku, and the Simplicity of Mission
20 April 2009
Unless you've been under an unusually large rock, by now you've heard of the Twitter phenomenon... basically updating the world on your though…
Management Improvement Carnival #60
8 April 2009
We are pleased to once again host the Management Improvement Carnival! A sampling of interesting posts from various leadership and management blogs o…
Taking the "Gen" out of "Genchi Genbutsu"
30 March 2009
Well, GM is in the news again, this time for refusing to cancel its program that gives a company car and company-paid gas for about 8,000 white-collar…