Bill Waddell

I had the opportunity to present a few thoughts at the first Lean Accounting Summit in Dearborn, Michigan last week and it was an uplifting experience…

Sad to say, most people did not actually read the 9/11 Commission Report, leaving it to CNN or Fox News to tell them what to think about it.  That'…

There is a very interesting article in the Cincinnati Enquirer this morning, written by Yuri Kageyama of the AP, titled Japanese Remain Wary of Borrow…

There was an absurd article on CNN's web site describing a problem the folks who live near Nissan's Canton, Mississippi plant have with the co…

Dinner at my house consisted of calling the local pizza guy last night.  It was not planned that way, but the product of my hour in the kitchen turned…

I have had a chance to get to know Norm Bodek pretty well over the past few months, which has been a great experience.  For those who don't know h…

Just for fun, I spent a few minutes cruising Monster.com to see if anything had changed and, unfortunately, the vast majority of the jobs in automotiv…

Hiroyuki Hirano, the leading lean industrial engineering guru in Japan these days, says the world is moving to an economy of "linearization"…