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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…

America has been taken over; but not by the Japanese, illegal Mexican immigrants or the Chinese, and certainly not by Al Queda.  No, the invading army…

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 brok…

Lean manufacturing is an economic business model - not a religion, not a moral crusade, and not a social cause.  Treating people decently, with respec…

Every year or so one of our neighbors takes us out for Sunday brunch.  She is considerably older than us, a world-traveller, very refined and formal,…

A few days ago Kevin wrote a piece about competition, making the point that any company that thinks it can follow the same old manufacturing practices…

Just a quick note that we've listened to your suggestions and in the spirit of continuous improvement we've implemented some enhancements to t…