Hey Joe, Ponga Su Cheesesteak Donde El Sol No Brilla, Por Favor
17 June 2006
I imagine just about everyone has heard of the guy in Philadelphia who put the sign in his cheesesteak joint saying, "This is America. When order…
It's All About Management
12 June 2006
Another performance measurement of the auto industry came out, with the usual results: Toyota way out ahead of the pack, followed in order by Honda,…
Inventory Is Ignorance
7 June 2006
Costikyan Jarvis, of Jarvis Cutting Tools, recently wrote to me about a manufacturing executive program he recently attended at Harvard, in which the…
McChips
30 May 2006
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…
We Don't Get No Respect
30 May 2006
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…
Lessons From An Itinerant Manufacturing Bum
25 May 2006
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…
Excellence, and Lack of It, Are Universal
24 May 2006
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 Very Short Year
22 May 2006
A year ago this month, my article "Shingo's Know Why" was published in Superfactory, marking the beginning of an enormously rewarding re…