Paul Critchley, president of New England Lean Consulting, discusses Lean principles at the Quality Show South in Nashville this May. Learn how to leverage Lean for business growth in his session, "Wicked Good Leadership."

In some way, personal growth is almost always uncomfortable. However, refusing to grow is often, in the long run, much more uncomfortable.

A surge in orders for plastics and metals have helped power the world’s largest economy past a global slowdown.