Driven a Ford Lately? I Won’t Be
Maybe it was karma or fate after I’ve been giving Ford execs a hard time, but I rented a LOUSY Ford Mustang over the weekend. I know rentals get beat up and aren’t representative of what you would buy, but…
Month December 2006
Chris Bianco on Searching for Pizza Perfection
Chris Bianco: ‘Pizza has been good to me’ | Operations | Pizza Marketplace I’m back in Phoenix for a few days, a city where I used to live from 2001-2005. My wife and I got back to our favorite restaurant,…
Smashing the Clock: Getting Rid of Time Standards
The cover story this week in Business Week is called Smashing the Clock. It is the story of Best Buy’s removal of all expectations of when and where you work. The only thing that matters are the results. I’m not…
30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy Declares Jack Welch Greater Than the Pharaohs
We know Dilbert makes fun of Six Sigma, but the new NBC show “30 Rock” does a great job of skewering GE culture (of which NBC is a part) and Six Sigma. 30 Rock is easily the funniest workplace show…
Lessons from Northwestern Football – Teamwork Over Talent and Inspirational Coaching
Plant Engineering Plant Engineering magazine has started a blog and they might have suckered me into mentioning their blog by praising this one: The other one that is best kept best up to date is Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, which leans…
Assembly Line TV Shows?
Hollywood Report – WSJ.com: I’m not a fan of “The O.C.” but this caught my eye in the WSJ today: “What went wrong at ‘The O.C.’? It’s impossible to pinpoint an exact reason, since TV series aren’t assembly-line products that…
Want to be notified of Comments?
Hi Blog readers — an administrative topic for the blog. I had one of our blog contributors ask about being notified of comments left on the Lean Blog by users. I get an email notification when a comment is posted…
