Walk into almost any factory, hospital, office, or warehouse, and you’ll likely encounter tier boards with a familiar set of colors: green, yellow, and red. Green means good. Red means bad. And yellow? Well, it has… some issues.

I began thinking about this after a discussion with my good friend and lean thought leader Billy Ray Taylor. He’s a crusader against the color yellow in…

Speaking with experts who love their jobs usually makes you aware of two things simultaneously: 1) how much you don’t know, and 2) how much you’d like to know. My conversations with Prashant Darisi and Vick Vaishnavi were no exception. I walked away with an appreciation for the decades of expertise, knowledge, and experience behind Octave’s key players, and a more solid understanding of how…

Theodore Roosevelt skinny-dipped in the Potomac River, owned a pet hyena, boxed in the White House, and reportedly drank a gallon of coffee a day (a legend that inspired Maxwell House to attribute the phrase “good to the last drop” to him). At his funeral, a New York police captain said, “It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him!”

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