Someone Has To Do It
8 October 2010
We have long known of and admired John Ratzenberger's efforts to promote manufacturing. For a number of years he has stood as the sole voice of Ho…
The Value Thing
7 October 2010
The last Lean Accounting Summit contained a lot of great content but what really stood out for me was the focus on value. There is a growing realizati…
Tour Notes 3 - Accounting
6 October 2010
In the course of giving my Lean Accounting / Lean Business Model seminars over the course of the last several weeks, inevitably we would get to the su…
Tour Notes 2 - People
6 October 2010
Western labor costs are better than ten times higher than corresponding labor rates in China. Overcoming that gap with vastly superior productivity is…
Tour Notes 1 - Culture
3 October 2010
Just finished the last stop on a seminar/workshop tour that has taken me over 30,000 miles over the last three weeks talking to folks on two continent…
Republican Jabberwocky
27 September 2010
"And then strange motions will abound.Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down" What curiou…
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
24 September 2010
My absence from the blog over the past few weeks is the product of a ridiculous travel schedule, and not only have I missed out on blogging, but quite…
First Vegas Then Down Under
20 September 2010
The Lean Accounting Glass isn't half empty - it's more like 99%+ empty. The hundreds of mostly financial folks descending on Las Vegas this we…