Tag: Respect for People

Blue-collar exodus brings new challenges - 11/30/06 - The Detroit News Online:UPDATE: In case some of you don't know my history of writing...

WXYZ: Investigators Update January 18, 2007: Ford's Fields Finally Sacrifices This was sent my way from a friend who works at a Ford-related company. I can't...

Lean was on my brain traveling home yesterday. Mostly bad examples, but one thing jumped out at me, somewhat positive.I love the TPS...

Deja Vu - WSJ.com "Early Industry Expert Soon Realized a Staff Had Its Own Efficiency" The WSJ has it wrong on manufacturing, once again. ...

NPR : Pay Helps Keep Workers at Western Burger Chain You should listen to this NPR story online, about the fast food chain In-N-Out. I'm...

Here is LeanBlog Podcast #7, a new discussion with our friend Norman Bodek, President of PCS Press and the author of many books, including...

"Welch spreads business gospel from MIT pulpit" Jack Welch himself sure seems like the turkey with comments like this: "Don't fall in love with your workers,"...

WSJ.com - Toyota May Delay New Models To Address Rising Quality Issues: I posted this article last week, but I looked at it again before...

Lean Blog: Companies Use Lean to Offset Cost Increases I posted last year about an Industry Week article about a company called Esselte. It sounded like...

Fortune: The new rules - Jul. 11, 2006Part of Fortune's cover story about how Jack Welch's "old rules" don't apply any more, this includes...

One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...

iPod City: Apple criticized for factory conditions There was a fairly shocking story in the Sunday Mail, a London newspaper, about the iPod factory conditions...