Bill Waddell

While it seems perfectly clear to me, sometimes folks have a difficult time connecting the dots when I rail against Wall Street, the outsourcers, the…

It often seems that the full time challenge of parenting teenagers is fighting the role model wars. Having raised both, I'm not sure which is wors…

Airbus and its parent company, EADS, are not really a manufacturing company. Rather, they are a massive European welfare program that passes out paych…

Not all outsourcing from American manufacturing to Asia is the result of short sighted management or Wall Street insanity. Some of it is the direct re…

Abraham Lincoln told a lot of stories, usually to make a point. One of his favorites was to ask someone, "If you call a dog's tail a leg, how…

It has taken me a couple of days to come to a conclusion concerning the Lean Accounting Summit and to distill all of my thoughts into a central point.…

I came across a manufacturing executive survey a few weeks back and have been pondering just what to make of it. The good news is that it indicates th…

I have written hundreds of blog posts on just about every angle of lean manufacturing, and my normal routine is to read dozens of articles from public…