Catching Up On The News
30 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL In a couple of news items of note ... Amazing But True A guy by the name of Chuck Fellows is a candidate for the Michigan state sen…
Feel Good Environmentalism
26 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL In a story in today's China Daily ... Rutgers' Chinese solar panels show clean-energy shift "At Rutgers University in…
One Size Doesn't Fit All
26 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Thanks to Jim Fernandez for sending me this article about Fiat's struggles to get their Italian workers to adopt American work pr…
A Tale of Two Companies
19 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Company #1 Next week it will be one year since I first heard from a mega-giant, multi-national company everyone has heard of with a…
Cafeteria Lean
16 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Like a lot of companies, Nissan approaches lean like the woman who orders a double cheeseburger, chili cheese fries ... and a Diet Co…
Who Educates The Investors?
14 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL So a guy named Mark Selway is brought into the Boral Company - a big global building products company based out of Australia - to tu…
When Work No Longer Has Value
12 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Joe Weisenthal has been a financial guru since he got out of college - in other words has never actually done an honest day's wor…
Lightning Versus Lightning Bugs
9 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL The formula for success is to identify value as the customer defines it, and focus your efforts on enhancing that value, while elimin…