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To the right is the cover of the latest Intel human resources manual - at least it is the manual Andy Grove is writing.  When the folks at Intel were…

Thirty pages into a painful book on organizational behavior by an academic named Howard Schwartz, I came to a chapter in which he expounds on the anti…

Just about everyone is familiar with the story of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and namesake of the famous Prizes - or at least they are familiar…

In going through my morning routine of perusing the news in search of interesting developments in the world of manufacturing, I encountered nothing un…

A year ago this month, my article "Shingo's Know Why" was published in Superfactory, marking the beginning of an enormously rewarding re…

It's time to jolt everyone out of their lean rut. I have spent most of the week being pulled into the insignificant details of lean - whether the…

You gotta hand it to the boys at Wharton. They sure are way out there on the cutting edge of management thinking. It seems fitting that in this 60th a…

I think I am on the verge of learning the hard way a lesson that I have learned many times over, but keep forgetting. My gut reaction when chaos broke…