I received a poster once. It showed a small baby, clothed only in a diaper. The baby’s face was arranged in a combination of despair and disgust. The inscription said simply: “If It Stinks, Change it.” It causes one to reflect on the things we have in our life that aren’t as we’d like them. […]

Our lumber is markedly more expensive than a year ago. In every phase of our business, we are spending more for it than we were a year ago. When lumber is more expensive, the cost of waste rises. It’s the nature of our business that material that goes in the dumpster may be ugly, but […]

We talk about “lean” at PalletOne. It occurs to me that many of you weren’t here when it was first introduced. “Lean” companies believe that customers only want to pay for “value”. They further believe that the way to “value” is to eliminate any waste that is associated with producing the product. A good way […]

“Widespread value creation in an enterprise will not take place if every person in the company doesn’t feel responsible to act to solve a problem that needs to be corrected or an opportunity that needs to be pursued.” Charles Koch Koch is a very successful businessman. He’s written a book on how to run a […]