As mentioned in my last blog, Formula 1 gearboxes are now highly integrated into the overall car design. The days of a “spec” transmission from a t...

“All memorable quotations referring to gearboxes involve expletives.” Peter Wright

            The author of Fo...

My previous posting on engineering vs. science reminded me of a professor who insisted “real engineers” had to be able to reason things back to “fi...

W.Edward Deming’s quality management system was credited with resurrecting and changing Japan’s manufacturing economy after World War II. Experts t...

Picking up from last week on W. Edwards Deming… We’re constantly hearing sports terms and metaphors used in business c...

We suffer through lots of sports clichés in business articles and motivational speeches. What if the reverse were done to sports teams? I am a big ...

The National Football League (NFL) held its annual draft of college players here in Chicago this past week. It is probably the most publicized huma...

I wrote last time about family and company history because it is fascinating to see how things came to be what they are. Some of the “movers and sh...

I watch too much television. My excuse is that most of it is what was classified as “educational” back before cable exploded to 500 channels plus m...