Advice for Women

18 January 2012

by BILL WADDELL Gender discrimination comes in a lot of forms, and with all of the hundreds of companies I have visited and the thousands I have rese…

Command by Buzzword

5 January 2012

by BILL WADDELL What does an Ivy League trained Commander in Chief with his Ivy Leaue trained staff mean when they describe their strategy with the w…

A Momentous Anniversary

5 January 2012

by BILL WADDELL For lots of reasons Henry Ford has been written off as a not-too-bright, mean-spirited guy whose only claim to greatness is the assem…

Platypus Leadership

2 January 2012

by BILL WADDELL A wise person, lost in anonymity to the ages, described the platypus as a duck designed by a committee.  It is exactly the sort of us…

The Antithesis of Lean

29 December 2011

by BILL WADDELL In the interest of protecting client confidentiality I won't name the town.  Recently, however, I was out west in a beautiful spo…

Rounding Up Again

16 December 2011

by BILL WADDELL Software Advice A guy named Derek Singleton over at Software Advice interviewed me the other day for a piece he wrote about the stat…