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I get a lot of email from people urging their product, cause or point of view on me as blog fodder. 99% of those unsolicited emails are deleted unopen…

I thought it might be worthwhile to sort out some of the bumbling, blathering nonsense related to manufacturing flowing from the President and Preside…

Lots of interesting tidbits to share this week, so let's get on with it ... Gluttons for Punishment Jim Huntzinger and Dwayne Butcher have an un…

Imagine you run a lemonade stand in front of your house, and you do pretty well at it. Now suppose I live a thousand miles away from you, but I decide…

My mother was proud to see me head off long ago to Saint Xavier High School in Cincinnati - an expensive, Jesuit school with demanding academic standa…

I'm sure the warning is too late, and as we speak St Peter is completely overwhelmed with the urgency of applying the Theory of Constraints to the…

What do you get when you combine five bankers, McKinsey and a CEO who knows nothing but marketing? Propriety prevents me from getting too graphic as t…

A year ago I wrote about the sad story of the Simmons Mattress company, a well run outfit that got caught in the cross hairs of the investment bankers…