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While it seems perfectly clear to me, sometimes folks have a difficult time connecting the dots when I rail against Wall Street, the outsourcers, the…

It often seems that the full time challenge of parenting teenagers is fighting the role model wars. Having raised both, I'm not sure which is wors…

Airbus and its parent company, EADS, are not really a manufacturing company. Rather, they are a massive European welfare program that passes out paych…

Not all outsourcing from American manufacturing to Asia is the result of short sighted management or Wall Street insanity. Some of it is the direct re…

Abraham Lincoln told a lot of stories, usually to make a point. One of his favorites was to ask someone, "If you call a dog's tail a leg, how…

I came across a manufacturing executive survey a few weeks back and have been pondering just what to make of it. The good news is that it indicates th…

I've noticed a lean trend lately that is going to accelerate the separation between companies that get it - and will survive - and those that don&…

Lot's of hubbub today about Radio Shack letting 400 people know they were laid off via email.  I expect it will make them the butt of a lot of jok…