Who Educates The Investors?
14 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL So a guy named Mark Selway is brought into the Boral Company - a big global building products company based out of Australia - to tu…
When Work No Longer Has Value
12 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Joe Weisenthal has been a financial guru since he got out of college - in other words has never actually done an honest day's wor…
Lightning Versus Lightning Bugs
9 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL The formula for success is to identify value as the customer defines it, and focus your efforts on enhancing that value, while elimin…
Special Excellence
7 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Most students of lean know that Toyota gives much of the credit for their manufacturing approach to Henry Ford, and for very good rea…
Management Trumps Culture Every Time
6 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL There is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the BP debacle in the Gulf of Mexico - that management rules - not culture or leader…
The Elite Idiots
29 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL In looking over the landscape for blog fodder I came across an article written by a guy named Paul Krugman in the New York Times that…
Misery Loves Company
25 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL Our intrepid leader is at the G-20 Summit of the world's economic leaders this weekend, and it seems as though he is having a tou…
Hope Isn't A Business Strategy
22 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL This is about as good a lean story as I have ever come across. A guy by the name of Rob Reich runs the maintenance operations taking…