Day July 11, 2006

The Chinese Auto Industry

I won’t comment on this much, because I’m not an expert on the Chinese auto industry (I still buy U.S.-built cars). But The Great Race: China offers big challenges but huge opportunities offers a primer on the ins and outs…

Interesting Change Model

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I found this in a non-lean book, but I can see how this applies to our lean world, this change model: Many of the factories I worked with my career were in that first phase — they were “unconsciously incompetent”…

Tom Peters on Getting Bigger & Slower

tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management: It’s no surprise that Tom Peters would have this take. He always asks, “what happens when you combine two big slow stupid elephants? it’s usually a bigger, slower, dumber elephant” (I am…