Tag: Respect for People

Last week, I blogged about an episode where bad news wasn't flowing up in Boeing (or, it's part of a pattern). In my Sunday morning...

Toyota Names Akio Toyoda President, Apologizes to Shareholders for Losses This was rumored for a while, but Toyota has formally named Akio Toyoda as the...

Following The Toyota Way, For Better Or Worse : NPR (listen or read) I'll hand it to NPR, they generally do a much better job...

How to find a job - Fortune on CNNMoney.com Lots of people are on the market right now and I've had many discussions with people...

Ford CEO Mulally shares Toyota's vision -- Article from USATODAY.com Why does the USA TODAY tend to do a better job with Lean articles than...

So it's Sunday morning, I have a cup of coffee at the ready... nice quiet, peaceful, sunny Sunday morning (you can tell we don't...

By Andy Wagner:I've been in industry for a little over ten years now, reading and thinking about lean for at least seven. ...

Below is a Toyota expression that I love... and this is a statement that could apply in any type of organization, don't you think?...

By Adam Zak, Adam Zak Executive Search:As a LeanThinker I am most unabashedly a free market advocate. Free trade, absolutely. Love those imported fresh...

By Adam Zak, Adam Zak Executive Search:I've been writing quite a bit lately about why respect for people, often vividly demonstrated when your team...

Updated 11/17/08 10 PM central If you have WSJ access, check out today's article "Stores Count Seconds to Trim Labor Costs". I thought, oh no...

I stumbled across a piece Richard Feynman spoke some time ago about "Cargo Cult Science" and couldn't help but extend the analogy to "Cargo...