Leadership & Execution

Last week USA Today ran an article describing how a relatively small group of companies have spawned a preponderance of CEO's. One in every five…

Two years ago we wrote a post contrasting the leadership, planning, and execution associated with 9/11 and Katrina.  On 9/11, 9/11 was an event unlik…

Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution has an interesting post regarding an article he penned for the Wilson Quarterly. The piece looks at how peopl…

The airline industry has been in a world of hurt the last several years, basically since 9/11.  Terrorism, high fuel prices, global competition, and a…

Evolving Excellence is hosting this edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. Elegance Offsets at Elegant Solutions.  If carbon offsets are via…

This is part of a five part series on a recent McKinsey series of article on lean manufacturing. Other posts in the series: Introduction, Public Secto…

I've long been a fan of Colin Powell's leadership style, as I consider it to be both human-centric while holding those same people accountable…

Over the past couple weeks I've been contemplating the concept of "self-contained waste."  Wasteful processes that have no inputs or out…