The federal deficit has ballooned to record numbers. Never before has lean been more important to government. With a undeniable need to drop future spending, unless we want services to drop along with it, we will have to deliver more…
Respecting copyright, I’ll just link to this funny cartoon from Nate Beeler. Maybe this is your Saturday chuckle. Subscribe via RSS | Lean Blog Main Page | Podcast | Twitter @markgraban Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org…
A Look at Obama’s Auto-Bailout Team – WSJ.com Stop me if you’ve heard that joke before… so here is the assembled team that will oversee the demise, I mean fixing, of the U.S. auto industry. I actually wrote this Sunday…
GM CEO resigns at Obama’s behest – Mike Allen – POLITICO.com (via Drudge) I’ve been calling for Wagoner to resign for years. I wish GM’s board had made this demand long ago, but the board has been packed full of…
Auto briefs | detnews.com | The Detroit News It’s too bad that they can’t talk directly to President Obama and introduce him to the Toyota Way and lean thinking… Toyota Motor Corp. ‘s top-ranking U.S. executive will appear next week…
Ah, summits. I once watched Coach Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Lady Volunteers take a 35 to 2 lead against my Northwestern Wildcats in the first few minutes of an NCAA basketball tournament game. That was too big of a deficit to…
I have a very special guest today… it’s a very spur of the moment podcast with L.A. mayoral candidate, David “Zuma Dogg” Saltsburg. This went from email, to phone call, to podcast all in a few hours. He is running…
L.A. Voters For Change: Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate David Saltsburg (Zuma Dogg) Answers Questions For Daily News I won’t pretend to understand Los Angeles politics (or much anything about L.A.). But, through an automated Google alert, I stumbled across a…
I try to keep apolitical here, so I’m not necessarily looking for discussion of what might be viewed as “waste” (meaning wasteful spending) in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” bill that the House just approved. There are plenty of…
Browse Posters – George Marshall Foundation I love old WWII Posters, particularly the production posters aimed at helping the war effort. As much as Dr. Deming said to not rely on signs, posters, and slogans, I just find these signs…
Ga. peanut plant has history of problems – Food safety – nbc.com NY Times article There was a lot of focus in the news yesterday about this peanut contamination being an “FDA problem”, with President Obama pointing at a lack…
Podcast Episode #60 is the second part of a two-parter with retired Lt. Randy Russell of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, an innovator in the use of Lean methods for improving law enforcement (Part 1, Episode #51 is here). This second…