It's All About Respect for People
12 March 2008
I was at the Lean Enterprise Institute's Transformation Summit in Orlando last week and had my world rocked by Bob Chapman, Chairman and CEO of Ba…
People Chain Management
24 February 2008
The latest Knowledge@Wharton has an intriguing article titled Talent on Demand: Applying Supply Chain Management to People. As the author notes, Sup…
Need Some Eager Workers?
11 February 2008
Those of you that happened to see ABC News this evening probably saw a pretty incredible story. A story about a company that has tapped into a workfo…
Just a Bowl of Brains
3 February 2008
We often deride the short-sighted companies that think of manufacturing workers as simply pairs of hands, and then use traditional accounting methods…
Barring Brilliant Minds
30 January 2008
I'll try to remain politically neutral with this story. One of the great incongruities of the current immigration debate in the U.S. is that we a…
Why a to-do list just doesn't work.
15 January 2008
Jim Womack, founder of the Lean Enterprise Instituteand the man responsible for putting Lean on the map (at least in this country), recently wrote an…
People in the New Year
11 January 2008
Last week I was one of four business leaders profiled in our local paper. We were asked to describe our business and personal New Year's resoluti…
Forget the Painters, Just Create Artists
7 January 2008
We often hear of traditional businesses being segregated into binary classes... chiefs and indians, queens and drones, conductor and musicians... you…