Ideas... are Just Ideas
30 July 2012
So the year is 2002. A team of designers and engineers shows their executives "a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The d…
Howard Schultz's Call to Action on American Manufacturing
17 June 2012
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is one of those guys you like, even if you sometimes you may not agree with him completely. A few months ago I saw him sp…
The Opportunity of the Gemba
3 June 2012
An article on CNN this morning gave me some pause: Fareed Zakaria wondering whether Russia should move its capital from Moscow to Vladivostok - 4,000…
Management Improvement Carnival #168
1 June 2012
Evolving Excellence is pleased to once again host the Management Improvement Carnival. Blog posts of note from the last couple weeks include: * As n…
Silly CEO, Pricing is for Customers
28 April 2012
Probably the biggest hurdle for ops guys when they transition into general management roles is learning about sales, marketing, and especially pricing…
The Importance of the Knowledge Distillery
15 April 2012
Over the last several years I've become fascinated with learning systems inside organizations. I've also found that the best leaders are gener…
The Shame of "Great" CEOs
9 April 2012
What a couple weeks here at Evolving Excellence. Discovering that Amazon's worker abuse is on par with Apple's, and even Bill's recent pos…
More Worker Abuse - Guess Where...
4 April 2012
Take a look at the following quotes from an article on worker abuse. I've purposely redacted the company and location identifying information.…