Category Archives: continuous improvement (9)

When I was fifty years younger and fifty pounds lighter I tried my hand at pole vaulting, a peculiar track and field event that involves running at..

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I was asked recently by a colleague if I make stuff up for my blog. “Some of your stories seem too crazy,” he said. The answer is, no, I haven’t made..

Some time ago, while giving a presentation entitled Organizational Obstacles to Lean, I displayed a slide with the title “It’s Not about Culture”. My..

My son, Ben, asked me last week, “How come the bacon cooks better on Grandma’s pan?” I’d just fried up some bacon using a pan handed down from my..

This winter has presented folks in my clime with a perpetual blanket of snow that hides most of the welcome signs of an approaching spring. There is..

I was reminded this week how problematical the conceptual blind spots in our management systems can be: An otherwise insightful and..

My last post about superficial improvement may have implied that the condition is limited to organizations with deep enough pockets to buy pricey..

Gross numbers reflecting American productivity can be misleading. When American companies outsource production, the labor “expense” is replaced with..

America’s form of government, borne out of an ideal of freedom and equality, has, for all of our short-term criticisms, been the object of continuous..