Learning about Lean

The new project is appealing.   The new purchase has pizzaz.  The new franchise will surely work well.   The new training should pay handsom...

“So, what do you do?”   Perhaps the most common question in business. “I flip burgers.” “I’m a manufacturing supervisor.”  “I analyze loan r...

Market data for 2021 show once again stock index mutual funds outperformed mutual funds managed by humans ( source ).   Fully 85% of active...

A friend used these words in a recent conversation describing a former boss of his.   I knew of that boss, from some distance. He had a posi...

On an otherwise uninspiring Monday evening in early December, I went to a local grocery store to pick up a package of frozen puff pastry my ...

If I only had that new set of golf clubs, my game would be more enjoyable. If I only had that powerful kitchen mixer, my breads would be mor...

After a nine-year layoff, I'm back to writing here.    So where have you been, Joe?? Glad you asked.    Suffice it to say it got intense...

This blog has been rather quiet for the past couple of months, which reflects two concurrent facts. One is an incredibly busy period for m...

Flow is a lot more interesting than batch. This occured to me in recent conversations with one of our team leaders who schedules work for ...

"You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." Dwi...