The Financial Crisis – Blaming the Person for Failures of the System
Every media outlet has been struggling to assign blame for current financial crisis. Obviously there was greed. There was incompetence. There was dishonesty. There was arrogance. And many other human failures. Politicians have...
Read MoreThe Strategic Value Stream – How Organizations Create Wealth
The purpose of corporations is to create wealth… not only financial wealth for stockholders, but total wealth for society. When corporations build competence in their employees they are creating wealth. When they innovate...
Read MoreLean Organization Requires Alignment of Social and Technical Systems
The more experience one has with Lean manufacturing or organization, the more clear it is that lean is a system in which both human and technical systems have been aligned.
Read MoreGetting to Lean – Whole System Design
Lean organizations are a culture, not a technique. How do you create that culture?
Read MoreShamu and Me
Shamu, husbands, children, inmates, managers and employees… all respond to reinforcement.
Read MorePower and Influence 2006
Both governments and companies suffer under illusions of power… the intoxication of the material world and the dismissal of the power within the heart and mind.
Read MoreA National Strategy for Competitiveness
I want to be the moderator at the next Presidential candidate debates. There are a couple questions I would like to ask about their plans for creating national wealth.
Read MoreDoes Spiritual Capital Exist?
Spiritual capital is not the same as membership in religion, or participation in religion, although that may be a stimulus to building spiritual capital.
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