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Tom Peters has interesting insights.  Yesterday’s blog entry and included "book" is no different.  He has called his "book" (that’s not a book) "Excellence for ‘The Rest of Us’: A ‘Book’ for ‘Real People’, Working in ‘The Real World’ in 2008".  In it, he contrasts what business "gurus" (like himself) often focus on compared to […]

Today the Brazen Careerist says here’s how to make it better…yesterday Seth Godin says why bother having one?

Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t.  Guy Kawasaki (author of one of my favorite books, The Art of the Start) recently launched Alltop.com, which he has branded as "the online magazine rack" for information from the "top publications and blogs".  I’m sure in a lot of circles (okay, maybe most circles), there has […]

An interesting post, The Erosion of Individual Responsibility, by Gary Becker on the Becker-Posner blog.

The Iowa healthcare system is using lean principles to improve quality and cost of healthcare.
I was traveling this week and had a chance to get caught up on some podcast listening.  During the America’s Business program from last week, Mike Hambrick introduce Vince Newendorp of Vermeer Manufacturing in Pella, IA.  Way to go Vince!  Vince […]

Thought this test was pretty cool.  Or, take it here…

Yesterday, did all of the following to work and stay connected with the world:

Remotely administered three computers in three different cities (and printed documents on a printer during one of those interactions)
Talked on my cell phone
Used Skype to call people (when my cell phone battery was dying and had no outlet nearby)
Used instant messenger to […]

Had a great conversation with Scott Whitlock of Flexware Innovation last Friday. Sometimes I feel like I’m on a little island working on technology solutions for manufacturing companies (and I guess a tech company in rural Iowa kind of is a little island), but it was good to talk with Scott because we could […]

If you found yourself walking into a room full of lean thinkers for the first time, you may think everyone was speaking another language. And you’d probably be right. Amidst some recognizable English, you’d probably hear a smattering of acronyms and Japanese words that would probably sounds somewhere between Robin Williams in Good […]

Later in the MIX08 interview, Steve Ballmer did do the “monkey dance” for web developers at the request of a conference attendee. Don’t have a clip of that yet, but here’s the original dance…

and then a chant he did for developers…