by BILL WADDELL The title is the Latin fundamental, "First do no harm" which is drilled into the heads of just about everyone going into me…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past several years we've taken Boeing to task for various issues primarily associated with their new 787 Dreamliner.  But…

by BILL WADDELL I get lots of questions about metrics.  We seem to be a culture obsessed with measuring things, and the idiotic notion that we can…

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 Kevin Meyer We like to tell you about living in smaller and smaller homes.  Change the mindset from wanting more storage space to desiring less to…

By Kevin Meyer I was digging through some articles I'd saved and came across a a piece from a week ago in the WSJ on Oracle and Larry Ellison.  W…

By Kevin Meyer Sometimes I really wonder if the wunderkinds of yesteryear are really that smart or just lucky in the moment.  Michael Dell was one su…

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