We’ve got a plan… It’s Zingerman’s Annual Plan (ZAP) again!

2012 has been a year of much change at ZingTrain. We moved into our first-ever dedicated training space. We hired two wonderful new folks to join the ZingTrain team. We hosted our first guest speaker. And launched our series of free monthly call-ins. And that’s just listing the big stuff! What has remained reassuringly consistent […]

Date : early May Location : Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market by Zingermans Deli and Kerrytown. even though there is still a cold nip in the air, nothing that your warm fleecy sweater can’t easily combat, the sun is high in the sky and bright and nary a cloud marks its course through the day. it […]

I’ve been driving awkwardly lately. Gear shifts come too late. I’m accelerating out of synch with my own gear shifts. It’s not a life crisis or anything but I used to work in the auto industry and I like cars, and I bought a manual because I like driving cars. So it’s just really awkward […]

OBM was pioneered by Jack Stack in The Great Game of Business. In 1983, he transformed a failing division of International Harvester into Springfield Remanufacturing Company (SRC)—one of the most successful and competitive companies in America—with nothing more than a few good managers, a little bit of cash, a lot of gumption and yes, Open […]

Right now, I’m sitting in a room with some of my heroes of the cheese world but they’re not talking about cheese. They’re talking about finance. When the cheese crazed food nut in me is not feeling all fan-girly about being in the same room as all these rockstars from the cheese world who have […]