WSJ Wrongly Blames Apple Inventory Problems on “Lean Manufacturing”
OK, so I'll admit I had a case of "rabbit ears" when I took the WSJ to task for calling the doomed BP Deepwater…
The WSJ is Once Again Mostly Wrong About Just in Time (No Surprise)
This image -- a huge container ship coming from a far-off land -- does NOT represent the Lean and Toyota…
WSJ’s Wrong Conclusion on Frederick Taylor
Deja Vu - WSJ.com "Early Industry Expert Soon Realized a Staff Had Its Own Efficiency"
The WSJ has it wrong on…
The WSJ Overgeneralizes about The “Japanese Model,” Not All Companies…
Not all Japanese companies are the same. "Lean isn't easy" if you're a Japanese company. Toyota has created…
Would the WSJ Blame “Just in Time” for the Stanley Cup Being Late?
The Wall St Journal loves writing about how "Just In Time" (JIT) is a risky inventory strategy. See my past posts…
More Than Grammar in This WSJ Grammar Quiz
Last week, my dad pointed out this grammar quiz on the Wall Street Journal website (as part of the article "This…
A Video Showing Office 5S Gone Wrong
You might also have seen the first video animation that I did last week about the waste of getting new recycling…
Fox News Channel Understands “Lean” Better than the WSJ
On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In…
Record of Annual WSJ Just-in-Time / Lean Blunders
The Wall Street Journal, sadly, has a long track record of not understanding Lean, as I've written about many…
Come on, WSJ, Why Drag “Lean” Into It?
While I was on vacation, the news (the BBC World Service, mainly) focused quite a lot on the BP oil spill in the…
Did this WSJ reviewer even read “The Checklist Manifesto?”
I just finished Dr. Atul Gawande's latest book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I believe that…
A Lean Guy Reads the WSJ, Nov 30 Edition
Some days, it seems the WSJ is a treasure trove of tangentially Lean related articles. Similar to "blog carnivals,"…
This Year’s WSJ “JIT”-Bashing Article, Again Misguided
Clarity Is Missing Link in Supply Chain - WSJ.com
Ah, here we go, it's time for the annual Just-In-Time-bashing…
WSJ Finds Another U.S. Manufacturer
Few Hands, Many Hours - WSJ.comSorry for the delay in getting to Part 3 in the WSJ series that I like to call,…
WSJ Blows It On Lean
WSJ.com - It's Not Easy Being LeanFree version via Pittsburgh Post-GazetteI was disappointed with a "Managing"…
WSJ.com – For Caterpillar, Commodity Boom Creates a Bind
WSJ.com - (Subscription Only)
A reminder that profit = price - cost, where the price is set by the market (not the…
What Were the 10 Most Read LeanBlog.org Posts of the First Half of 2021?
Thanks everybody for reading my blog here in 2021. And for listening to podcasts... oh so many podcasts.
I…
Should We Blame “Just in Time” or “Short-Term Thinking”…
A version of this originally appeared on LinkedIn -- Read and/or see the discussion that's been sparked there.
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