Lean Is Bigger Than We Thought
3 August 2009
by BILL WADDELL My daily routine begins with scouring an ever growing list of business sources from around the world, both for blog fodder and to kee…
Was Apollo 11 The Cultural High Point?
22 July 2009
by BILL WADDELL I still remember the surge of pride and great sense of accomplishment I felt when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon…
Is Business Learning the Value of Experience?
10 July 2009
By Kevin Meyer I subscribe to three of the Kiplinger Letter publications - the original Kiplinger Letter, the Kiplinger Tax Letter, and the Kiplinge…
The Preventive Performance Review
14 June 2009
One of the most loathed supervisory activities in a traditional organization is the performance review. In the worst case the reviews aren't cond…
Laffer and the Portability of Knowledge
1 June 2009
By Kevin Meyer The Laffer Curve has received a lot of press over the past couple weeks as federal, state, and even local governments try to close hug…
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…
Do You Truly Know Your Culture?
25 February 2009
One of my real jobs is running a medical device component manufacturer with a few hundred employees. A fun job in a thankfully still-growing industry…
Preserving Talent
23 February 2009
Layoffs are rampant these days, but even so the negative consequences of this recession are taking shape differently than in the past. So far. There…