Teach people about Lean manufacturing. That is what the U.S. Air Force asked me to do. OK, but before I could teach it, I had to learn what Lean was. I grabbed some books and started putting together ...

Today’s productivity improvement goals, and the significant disparity in wages between U.S. manufacturing and lower-cost countries, require shops to use as much of a machine operator’s idle time as is ...

When it comes to managing our homes and personal lives, most of us aren’t using an Eisenhower Matrix to organize our to-do lists or performing a SWOT analysis to make our mornings run smoothly. But ...