Just a Bagel? Isn’t it nice when you arrive at work and find that one of your fellow employees took it upon themselves to treat the rest of the office with bagels or some other form of breakfast treat? It makes you feel as if…
Getting Fit! Many of my friends work out several times a week. My son, age 22, has taken up running five mornings a week. They are getting fit. There are many types of fitness. They are getting physically fit, but what about career fitness? As…
Here are two definitions which I found on Wikipedia that I would like you to consider: Supply Chain – A supply chain is a set of organizations directly linked by one or more of the upstream and downstream flows of products, services, finances, and information from…
So, here is an example of taking some current news and draw some learnings from it. No doubt by now, everyone has heard about the massive problems that Toyota is experiencing. Below is one of the many articles on the topic (full disclosure…we were interviewed and are quoted in it). The challenge is that articles like this rarely dig into the deeper impacts of recent events. There’s so much to be learned from Toyota, but who is asking the right questions? I’ve posted a few below to get the discussion going…Looking forward to your responses.
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