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I think Tom Peters has tremendous passion and great ideas. Among his ideas are the topic of innovation and breaking paradigms (probably “destroying” would be a better term) and of learning through failure. Because of this, he is not a fan of kaizen or continuous improvement, as they tend to be incremental refinement […]

Admittedly, Lean Tech’s product Thrive is not for everyone.  However, I have often encountered the sentiment that the business system or ERP is.  This thought was echoed in an article I read by Michael Vizard this morning in Baseline magazine.  He was talking about the disconnect that occurs at some companies in seeing the “relationship […]

Saw a print ad this morning in a magazine that was a nice reminder to dad’s (like myself) that there is more to life than work. Click here to view (this pic has moved once already, so the link may be broken…if not there, check out the public service announcements on www.fatherhood.org).

Just over a year ago I had a chance to meet with Gary Brattland, who runs the Paradigm Best Practices Round Table group in Minnesota. I also attended one of the group’s meetings, where they basically get together at one of the member’s companies to take a tour and share best (or better) practices and […]