The Five Minute Gemba Archive

I recently began reading “Courage is Calling” by Ryan Holiday. Then yesterday, as I was reflecting on where I was spending my discretionary time, I

I don’t do a lot of social media. I had to turn down the noise last year so I could focus. It was a very

Years ago, I had a live podcast on Blog Talk Radio. I really enjoyed conducting live discussions and interacting not only with my guests, but

Two years ago, I met with the management team at a prospective customer. They had visited one of our customers who uses CIMCO Software and

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the title of this newsletter, “Fill your head with good stuff.” The purveyor of those words is author

I have two old notebooks I often carry to customer meetings in which I have spent countless hours writing down ideas and doing “free form”

If you hadn’t noticed, it’s been a little while since our “bi-weekly” newsletter landed in your inbox. I am writing this hastily because I didn’t

Today, many of you are likely recovering from a much smaller than usual Thanksgiving Day of food, friends, and family. With that in mind, today

Thank you to any and all veteran’s reading this, I appreciate your service. This year we’ve seen a lot of people struggling and grinding their

In 2014, my family relocated from Danville to El Dorado Hills, California, just one year after I decided to shift the focus of Managed Solutions

“Human workers in the future will need to be creative to fully realize the benefits of all the new things for the future—new products, ways

Recently, I experienced a real life episode of “The Old Woman Who Swallowed the Fly.” As the nursery rhyme goes, her story starts with a

Welcome to the first edition of the Five-Minute Gemba, a bi-weekly newsletter designed to help you accelerate your Industry 4.0 Journey. The other morning, I