Bill Waddell

by BILL WADDELL Taiichi Ohno said, when asked what the Toyota Production System was all about, "All we are doing is looking at the time line, fr…

by BILL WADDELL "How vain, without the merit, is the name," wrote Homer.  He was writing about Hector - trashing him for claiming epic acco…

by BILL WADDELL As you are reading this I am in the Land Down Under for the first time - I have been to China and Europe more times than I care to re…

by BILL WADDELL The big money people around the world are in a full blown panic over the financial implosion in Dubai.  The state owned bank there sa…

by BILL WADDELL Lying to and generally abusing customers has been around as long as business has been in business, but we seem to have reached a poin…

by BILL WADDELL James Weldon Johnson was quite the Renaissance man, if ever there was one.  A poet and a lawyer, a politician and a songwriter, and a…

by BILL WADDELL The answer is at least three.  That point is made pretty clearly in an article covering a talk made by Emerson chairman David Farr, a…

by BILL WADDELL Just to prove I have not always been anti-intellectual I want to start by acknowledging a debt of gratitude to a guy named Bob Hayes,…