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It’s hard to believe that 2018 is the 20th anniversary for the Toast Kaizen video. After two decades, nearly one hundred and fifty thousand copies..
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September 26 , 2018.
Knowledge Work
An engineering manager whom I worked with twenty-five years ago challenged me one day, “You know, Bruce, if all employees were engineers, you..
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February 03 , 2014.
Good Witch or Bad Witch?
A recent comment from a business friend, call him Tom, who manages a small factory, reminded me of a scene from The Wizard of Oz. “Our president is..
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June 05 , 2013.
Insignificant Digits
Significant digits, the number of digits to the right of a decimal point that are warranted by the accuracy of the means of measurement, are a..
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July 12 , 2011.