Public vs. Private Company Managers
20 October 2008
A recent article in Knowledge@Wharton compares the management of public and private companies. Executives who hone their skills at the helm of privat…
Improving By Getting Out Of The Way
9 October 2008
We've all seen it before in our factories, and in business in general... sometimes we just have to set our employees free in order to realize the…
Is the Four Hour Work Week Really Lean?
16 September 2008
Regular reader know that I like Tim Ferris' book, The Four Hour Workweek. The productivity aspects of lean dovetail perfectly with the concepts h…
Toyota: Pioneer of Momentum
26 August 2008
Is marketing spending directly correlated to top line and bottom line growth? Is there an alternative way to grow? A recent article in Knowledge@Wha…
An Interesting Review of Bill's Book
6 August 2008
A regular reader recently pointed me to a post on Carrie's Nation which then pointed to a post on the Mutualist Blog which had a long review of Bi…
McKinsey Figures Out Value - 20 Years Later
17 July 2008
The guys at McKinsey can be some bright puppies... once they figure out they're a decade behind. First they tried to kill Lego, then they got rel…
Leadership in the Internet Age
10 July 2008
Lean bloggers are not exactly the biggest fans of Jack Welch, but a couple weeks ago he penned a prescient column for Business Week discussing leaders…
The Value of Not Overthinking
8 July 2008
And all this time we thought that decisions arose consciously by thoroughly evaluating the data and coming to a conclusion. Maybe not. Fishing in th…