Most of us have learned that being busy does not mean you’re being productive, and that multitasking leads to being less productive—although I still see that being harped on as a “skill” on resumes and profiles.

Editor’s note: This is episode two in the Respect for People series. Click here for episode one.

How will the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement affect greenhouse gas emissions?

Productivity matters. It matters a lot. Yet it often seems that folks talk about productivity but don’t do anything about it.

It has been a while since I have written about statistics, and I get asked a lot about a way to calculate sample sizes based on reliability and confidence levels.

So it seems the contentious wall along our southern border, variously known as the Trump wall or the Mexico-United States barrier,

After being recognized in 1990 by the Shingo Prize, my plant became an overnight hot spot for benchmarking.

Just as baby boomers on the manufacturing plant floor are getting ready to retire, so are the owners.

In the past two months we have looked at how three-sigma limits work with skewed data.

A few years ago, I was asked to conduct a workshop, deliver a keynote, and chair a three-day conference on manufacturing process excellence in Europe, produced by the Process Excellence Network (PEX