What Is Discretionary Spending Anyway?
5 August 2010
by BILL WADDELL A Wall Street Journal a few weeks back described how "CEOs Fight To Prevent Discretionary Spending From Creeping Back Up."…
The Power of Ideas
4 August 2010
by BILL WADDELL Last week I traveled close to 400 miles to spend a day explaining Lean Accounting and the Lean Enterprise management infrastructure t…
Pigs, Panic, Politicians and The Wolfpack
2 August 2010
by BILL WADDELL PIGS Perhaps the folks running the big container shipping lines are genuinely concerned about the environment and their carbon footp…
Catching Up On The News
30 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL In a couple of news items of note ... Amazing But True A guy by the name of Chuck Fellows is a candidate for the Michigan state sen…
Feel Good Environmentalism
26 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL In a story in today's China Daily ... Rutgers' Chinese solar panels show clean-energy shift "At Rutgers University in…
One Size Doesn't Fit All
26 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Thanks to Jim Fernandez for sending me this article about Fiat's struggles to get their Italian workers to adopt American work pr…
A Tale of Two Companies
19 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Company #1 Next week it will be one year since I first heard from a mega-giant, multi-national company everyone has heard of with a…
Cafeteria Lean
16 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Like a lot of companies, Nissan approaches lean like the woman who orders a double cheeseburger, chili cheese fries ... and a Diet Co…